COVID-19 infection complicated with acute pulmonary embolism treated with percutaneous pulmonary artery thrombectomy: a case report.
Ivo PetrovZoran StankovGeorgi DobrevPetar PolomskiPublished in: European heart journal. Case reports (2022)
In the era of the COVID-19 pandemic, physicians have to remain vigilant of its potential thrombotic complications, the most commonly observed being DVT and PE. We demonstrated the efficacy of percutaneous thrombus aspiration in a patient with acute COVID-19-associated PE, after initial CDT with thrombus defragmentation and high-dose tissue plasminogen activator was implemented with a suboptimal result.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary embolism
- pulmonary artery
- liver failure
- high dose
- ultrasound guided
- coronary artery
- pulmonary hypertension
- respiratory failure
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- inferior vena cava
- coronavirus disease
- minimally invasive
- sars cov
- drug induced
- primary care
- radiofrequency ablation
- hepatitis b virus
- case report
- risk factors
- newly diagnosed
- respiratory syndrome coronavirus