COVID-19 and Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Series and Brief Review

The SARS-CoV-2 virus, or COVID-19, is responsible for the current global pandemic and has resulted in the death of over 400,000 in the United States. Rates of venous thromboembolism have been noted to be much higher in those infected with COVID-19. Here we report a case-series of COVID-19 patients w...

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Autores principales: Hughes, Kelly, Hussaini, Zeba, Shah, Mahek K, Hilton, Robert, Oxman, David
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7874943/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33773760
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjms.2020.12.005
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description The SARS-CoV-2 virus, or COVID-19, is responsible for the current global pandemic and has resulted in the death of over 400,000 in the United States. Rates of venous thromboembolism have been noted to be much higher in those infected with COVID-19. Here we report a case-series of COVID-19 patients with diverse presentations of pulmonary embolism (PE). We also briefly describe the pathophysiology and mechanisms for pulmonary embolism in COVID-19. These cases indicate a need to maintain a high index of suspicion for PE in patients with COVID-19, as well as the need to consider occult COVID-19 infection in patients with PE in the right clinical circumstance.
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spelling pubmed-78749432021-02-11 COVID-19 and Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Case Series and Brief Review Hughes, Kelly Hussaini, Zeba Shah, Mahek K Hilton, Robert Oxman, David Am J Med Sci Special Feature The SARS-CoV-2 virus, or COVID-19, is responsible for the current global pandemic and has resulted in the death of over 400,000 in the United States. Rates of venous thromboembolism have been noted to be much higher in those infected with COVID-19. Here we report a case-series of COVID-19 patients with diverse presentations of pulmonary embolism (PE). We also briefly describe the pathophysiology and mechanisms for pulmonary embolism in COVID-19. These cases indicate a need to maintain a high index of suspicion for PE in patients with COVID-19, as well as the need to consider occult COVID-19 infection in patients with PE in the right clinical circumstance. Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. 2021-05 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC7874943/ /pubmed/33773760 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amjms.2020.12.005 Text en © 2021 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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