Incidence of Deep Venous Thrombosis in Patients With COVID-19 and Pulmonary Embolism: Compression Ultrasound COVID Study.
Anabel Franco-MorenoMaria Herrera-MoruecoBeatriz Mestre-GómezNuria Muñoz-RivasAne Abad-MotosDanilo Salazar-ChiribogaMercedes Duffort-FalcóPilar Medrano-IzquierdoAna Bustamante-FermoselVirginia Pardo-GuimeraMariano Ulla-AnésJuan Torres-Machonull nullPublished in: Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine (2020)
Our study showed a low incidence of DVT in a cohort of patients with COVID-19 and PE. This observation suggests that PE in these patients could be produced mainly by a local thromboinflammatory syndrome induced by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection and not by a thromboembolic event.