Pulmonary Artery Filling Defects in COVID-19 Patients Revealed Using CT Pulmonary Angiography: A Predictable Complication?

Arnaldo ScardapaneLaura VillaniDavide Fiore BavaroFrancesca PasseriniAmato Antonio Stabile IanoraNicola Maria LucarelliGioacchino AngaranoPiero PortincasaVincenzo Ostilio PalmieriAnnalisa Saracino

Published in: BioMed research international (2021)

This single centre retrospective report shows a high prevalence of pulmonary artery filling defects revealed using CTPA in COVID-19 patients and demonstrates that the mean value of multiple D-dimer measurements may represent a predicting factor of this complication.

Keyphrases

pulmonary artery
pulmonary hypertension
sars cov
coronary artery
pulmonary arterial hypertension
computed tomography
single cell
optical coherence tomography
dual energy
image quality
cross sectional
contrast enhanced
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging