Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases

Since the novel coronavirus emerged in late December, 2019 in Wuhan, China, millions of people have been infected and thousands of patients have died. Fever and dyspnea are the most common symptoms of infection with SARS-CoV-2. However, these symptoms are neither specific nor diagnostic for COVID-19...

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Autores principales: Bozorgmehr, Rama, Pishgahi, Mehdi, Tajabadi, Zohreh, Aryafar, Mohammad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33244523
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author Bozorgmehr, Rama
Pishgahi, Mehdi
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description Since the novel coronavirus emerged in late December, 2019 in Wuhan, China, millions of people have been infected and thousands of patients have died. Fever and dyspnea are the most common symptoms of infection with SARS-CoV-2. However, these symptoms are neither specific nor diagnostic for COVID-19. Symptom overlap between COVID-19 and some other conditions may lead other diseases to be missed and underdiagnosed. Just like COVID-19, pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) and pulmonary infarction may present with fever and respiratory symptoms. Since COVID-19 emerged and spread worldwide, many clinicians are focused on diagnosis and treatment of this novel viral infection. Hence, other diseases presenting with the same symptoms as COVID-19 may remain underdiagnosed. Here, we report three cases of PTE and pulmonary infarction presenting with fever and respiratory symptoms mimicking COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-76826272020-11-25 Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases Bozorgmehr, Rama Pishgahi, Mehdi Tajabadi, Zohreh Aryafar, Mohammad Arch Acad Emerg Med Case Report Since the novel coronavirus emerged in late December, 2019 in Wuhan, China, millions of people have been infected and thousands of patients have died. Fever and dyspnea are the most common symptoms of infection with SARS-CoV-2. However, these symptoms are neither specific nor diagnostic for COVID-19. Symptom overlap between COVID-19 and some other conditions may lead other diseases to be missed and underdiagnosed. Just like COVID-19, pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) and pulmonary infarction may present with fever and respiratory symptoms. Since COVID-19 emerged and spread worldwide, many clinicians are focused on diagnosis and treatment of this novel viral infection. Hence, other diseases presenting with the same symptoms as COVID-19 may remain underdiagnosed. Here, we report three cases of PTE and pulmonary infarction presenting with fever and respiratory symptoms mimicking COVID-19. Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences 2020-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC7682627/ /pubmed/33244523 Text en This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title_full Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title_fullStr Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title_short Pulmonary Thromboembolism and Infarction Mimicking COVID-19 Symptoms; Report of three Cases
title_sort pulmonary thromboembolism and infarction mimicking covid-19 symptoms; report of three cases
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7682627/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33244523
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