Pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19: characteristics and outcomes in the Cardio-COVID Italy multicenter study

• Published in: Clinical research in cardiology Vol. 110; no. 7; pp. 1020 - 1028
• Main Authors: Ameri, Pietro, Inciardi, Riccardo M., Di Pasquale, Mattia, Agostoni, Piergiuseppe, Bellasi, Antonio, Camporotondo, Rita, Canale, Claudia, Carubelli, Valentina, Carugo, Stefano, Catagnano, Francesco, Danzi, Giambattista, Dalla Vecchia, Laura, Giovinazzo, Stefano, Gnecchi, Massimiliano, Guazzi, Marco, Iorio, Anita, La Rovere, Maria Teresa, Leonardi, Sergio, Maccagni, Gloria, Mapelli, Massimo, Margonato, Davide, Merlo, Marco, Monzo, Luca, Mortara, Andrea, Nuzzi, Vincenzo, Piepoli, Massimo, Porto, Italo, Pozzi, Andrea, Provenzale, Giovanni, Sarullo, Filippo, Sinagra, Gianfranco, Tedino, Chiara, Tomasoni, Daniela, Volterrani, Maurizio, Zaccone, Gregorio, Lombardi, Carlo Mario, Senni, Michele, Metra, Marco
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.07.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Antiretroviral drugs; Bleeding; Cardiology; Cohort Studies; Computed tomography; Congestive heart failure; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - complications; COVID-19 - mortality; COVID-19 - therapy; Dimers; Embolism; Embolisms; Female; Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products - metabolism; Follow-Up Studies; Hemorrhage - epidemiology; Hospital Mortality; Hospitalization; Humans; Incidence; Italy; Kidney diseases; Lung diseases; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Monoclonal antibodies; Original Paper; Pulmonary Embolism - epidemiology; Pulmonary Embolism - therapy; Pulmonary Embolism - virology; Pulmonary embolisms; Regression analysis; Renal failure; Respiration, Artificial - statistics & numerical data; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Ritonavir; Tomography, X-Ray Computed; Transfusion; Ventilation; Viral diseases; Italy; COVID-19; Death; Anticoagulant; Thromboembolism; Coagulopathy; dimer; D-dimer

Background Pulmonary embolism (PE) has been described in coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) critically ill patients, but the evidence from more heterogeneous cohorts is limited. Methods Data were retrospectively obtained from consecutive COVID-19 patients admitted to 13 Cardiology Units in Italy, f...