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Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19

COVID-19 generates a series of challenges, one of them being thrombotic manifestations of the disease. The growing use of POCUS and its wide versatility have expanded its use outside of radiology rooms. The development of focused protocols has facilitated its use in emergency units, clinical wards,...

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Autores principales: Velasco Malagón, Sergio, Moreno Ladino, Juliana, Ruiz, Hector Andres
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896390
http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15534
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description COVID-19 generates a series of challenges, one of them being thrombotic manifestations of the disease. The growing use of POCUS and its wide versatility have expanded its use outside of radiology rooms. The development of focused protocols has facilitated its use in emergency units, clinical wards, intensive care units, and operating rooms. We report three cases of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in whom the use of POCUS allowed the identification of the presence of intracavitary thrombus with acute right ventricular dysfunction. These cases illustrate the importance of ultrasound focused on critically ill patients in guiding the diagnosis and treatment amid the pandemic situation.
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spelling pubmed-99837242023-03-08 Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19 Velasco Malagón, Sergio Moreno Ladino, Juliana Ruiz, Hector Andres POCUS J Medicine COVID-19 generates a series of challenges, one of them being thrombotic manifestations of the disease. The growing use of POCUS and its wide versatility have expanded its use outside of radiology rooms. The development of focused protocols has facilitated its use in emergency units, clinical wards, intensive care units, and operating rooms. We report three cases of patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection in whom the use of POCUS allowed the identification of the presence of intracavitary thrombus with acute right ventricular dysfunction. These cases illustrate the importance of ultrasound focused on critically ill patients in guiding the diagnosis and treatment amid the pandemic situation. 2022-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC9983724/ /pubmed/36896390 http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15534 Text en Copyright (c) 2022 Sergio Velasco Malagón, Juliana Moreno, Hector Andres Ruiz https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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Velasco Malagón, Sergio
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Ruiz, Hector Andres
Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title_full Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title_fullStr Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title_full_unstemmed Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title_short Three Cases of Right Heart Thrombus: Using POCUS for the Diagnosis of Thromboembolism in COVID-19
title_sort three cases of right heart thrombus: using pocus for the diagnosis of thromboembolism in covid-19
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9983724/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36896390
http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/pocus.v7i2.15534
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