Incidence of pulmonary embolism in non-critically ill COVID-19 patients. Predicting factors for a challenging diagnosis

• Published in: Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 40 - 46
• Main Authors: Mestre-Gómez, B., Lorente-Ramos, R. M., Rogado, J., Franco-Moreno, A., Obispo, B., Salazar-Chiriboga, D., Saez-Vaquero, T., Torres-Macho, J., Abad-Motos, A., Cortina-Camarero, C., Such-Diaz, A., Ruiz-Velasco, E., Churruca-Sarasqueta, J., Muñoz-Rivas, N.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.01.2021; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Angiography; Anticoagulants - therapeutic use; Cardiology; Causality; Chemoprevention - methods; Chemoprevention - statistics & numerical data; Computed tomography; Computed Tomography Angiography - methods; Coronaviruses; COVID-19; COVID-19 - complications; COVID-19 - diagnosis; COVID-19 - drug therapy; COVID-19 - physiopathology; Diagnosis; Dyslipidemia; Electronic Health Records - statistics & numerical data; Electronic medical records; Embolism; Female; Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products - analysis; Hematology; Heparin; Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data; Humans; Incidence; Lung - blood supply; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Molecular weight; Multivariate analysis; Pandemics; Patients; Pulmonary Embolism - blood; Pulmonary Embolism - diagnostic imaging; Pulmonary Embolism - epidemiology; Pulmonary Embolism - etiology; Pulmonary embolisms; SARS-CoV-2 - isolation & purification; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; Spain - epidemiology; Thrombophilia - diagnosis; Thrombophilia - etiology; Spain; COVID-19; Pulmonary embolism; Hypercoagulable state; Computed tomography pulmonary angiography; Antithrombotic therapy

Recent studies suggest that thrombotic complications are a common phenomenon in the novel SARS-CoV-2 infection. The main objective of our study is to assess cumulative incidence of pulmonary embolism (PE) in non critically ill COVID-19 patients and to identify its predicting factors associated to th...