Association Between Pulmonary Embolism and COVID-19 in Emergency Department Patients Undergoing Computed Tomography Pulmonary Angiogram: The PEPCOV International Retrospective Study.
Yonathan FreundMarie DrogreyÒscar MiróAlessio MarraAnne-Laure Féral-PierssensAndrea PenalozaBarbara A Lara HernandezSebastien BeauneJudith GorlickiPrabakar Vaittinada AyarJennifer TruchotBarbara PenaAlfons AguirreFlorent FémyNicolas JavaudAnthony ChauvinTahar ChouihedEmmanuel MontassierPierre-Géraud ClaretCéline OccelliMélanie RousselFabien BrigantSami EllouzePierrick Le BorgneSaid LaribiTabassome SimonOlivier LucidarmeMarine CachanadoBen Bloomnull nullPublished in: Academic emergency medicine : official journal of the Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (2020)
In ED patients who underwent CTPA for suspected PE, COVID-19 was not associated with an increased probability of PE diagnosis. These results were also valid when limited to the pandemic period. However, these results may not apply to patients with suspected COVID-19 in general.
Keyphrases
- coronavirus disease
- pulmonary embolism
- sars cov
- emergency department
- computed tomography
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- inferior vena cava
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- peritoneal dialysis
- magnetic resonance imaging
- positron emission tomography
- pulmonary hypertension
- patient reported
- dual energy
- pet ct