Patterns of organizing pneumonia and microinfarcts as surrogate for endothelial disruption and microangiopathic thromboembolic events in patients with coronavirus disease 2019.
Katharina MartiniChristian BluethgenJoan Elias WalterThi Dan Linh Nguyen-KimFriedrich ThienemannThomas FrauenfelderPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Despite the reported hypercoagulability in critically ill patients with COVID-19, we did not encounter higher prevalence of PE in our patient cohort compared to the control cohorts. However, patients with suspected PE showed a higher prevalence of lung changes, resembling patterns of infarct pneumonia or OP and CT-signs of pulmonary-artery hypertension.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary artery
- coronavirus disease
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- risk factors
- blood pressure
- case report
- computed tomography
- endothelial cells
- acute myocardial infarction
- image quality
- magnetic resonance imaging
- contrast enhanced
- heart failure
- community acquired pneumonia
- respiratory failure
- dual energy
- magnetic resonance
- acute coronary syndrome
- acute respiratory distress syndrome
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation