Pulmonary Vascular Thrombosis in COVID-19 Pneumonia.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

During severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection, dramatic endothelial cell damage with pulmonary microvascular thrombosis have been was hypothesized to occur. The aim was to assess whether pulmonary vascular thrombosis (PVT) is due to recurrent thromboembolism from peripheral deep vein thrombosis or to local inflammatory endothelial damage, with a superimposed thrombotic late complication.

Design

Observational study.

Setting

Medical and intensive care unit wards of a teaching hospital.

Participants

The authors report a subset of patients included in a prospective institutional study (CovidBiob study) with clinical suspicion of pulmonary vascular thromboembolism.

Interventions

Computed tomography pulmonary angiogra

SUBMITTER: De Cobelli F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7836419 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature