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Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases

Since the beginning of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, elevated D-dimer levels as an acute-phase reactant have been reported in some patients. Additionally, the patients with pneumonia are at increased risk of developing thromboembolic events. Diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism an...

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Autores principales: Alikhani, Fariba, Aalinezhad, Marzieh, Rezaei, Mostafa Haji, Akbari, Pouya, Hashemi, Marzieh
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33132576
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23587
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author Alikhani, Fariba
Aalinezhad, Marzieh
Rezaei, Mostafa Haji
Akbari, Pouya
Hashemi, Marzieh
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description Since the beginning of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, elevated D-dimer levels as an acute-phase reactant have been reported in some patients. Additionally, the patients with pneumonia are at increased risk of developing thromboembolic events. Diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis can be challenging in SARS-CoV2–positive patients. Here, we report four patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to highlight the possibility of acute thromboembolism in these patients. The physicians should be aware of this complication and even consider prophylactic anticoagulant therapy in proper clinical settings. How to cite this article: Alikhani F, Aalinezhad M, Haji Rezaei M, Akbari P, Hashemi M. Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(9):873–876.
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spelling pubmed-75848212020-10-30 Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases Alikhani, Fariba Aalinezhad, Marzieh Rezaei, Mostafa Haji Akbari, Pouya Hashemi, Marzieh Indian J Crit Care Med Case Report Since the beginning of the Coronavirus Disease-2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, elevated D-dimer levels as an acute-phase reactant have been reported in some patients. Additionally, the patients with pneumonia are at increased risk of developing thromboembolic events. Diagnosing acute pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis can be challenging in SARS-CoV2–positive patients. Here, we report four patients with COVID-19 pneumonia to highlight the possibility of acute thromboembolism in these patients. The physicians should be aware of this complication and even consider prophylactic anticoagulant therapy in proper clinical settings. How to cite this article: Alikhani F, Aalinezhad M, Haji Rezaei M, Akbari P, Hashemi M. Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases. Indian J Crit Care Med 2020;24(9):873–876. Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers 2020-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7584821/ /pubmed/33132576 http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23587 Text en Copyright © 2020; Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers (P) Ltd. © The Author(s). 2020 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and non-commercial reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases
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title_short Coronavirus Disease-2019 Pneumonia and Pulmonary Embolism: Presentation of Four Cases
title_sort coronavirus disease-2019 pneumonia and pulmonary embolism: presentation of four cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7584821/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33132576
http://dx.doi.org/10.5005/jp-journals-10071-23587
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