Pulmonary Thromboembolism in COVID-19: Venous Thromboembolism or Arterial Thrombosis?

Enrico CavagnaFrancesco MuratoreFabio Ferrari

Published in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)

PTE in COVID-19 involves mainly the segmental and subsegmental arteries of segments affected by consolidations in patients with more severe lung disease. The authors hypothesize that the development of PTE in COVID-19 might be a pulmonary artery thrombosis because of severe lung inflammation and hypercoagulability rather than thromboembolism.© RSNA, 2020.

Keyphrases

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