Poggiali, Erika and Bastoni, Davide and Ioannilli, Eva and Vercelli, Andrea and Magnacavallo, Andrea (2020) Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: Two Complications of COVID-19 Pneumonia? European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (5). ISSN 2284-2594
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Abstract
Coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) is a worldwide infection which was recently declared a global health emergency by the WHO Emergency Committee. The most common symptoms are fever and cough, which can progress to pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and/or end-organ failure. Risk factors associated with ARDS and death are older age, comorbidities (e.g., hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidaemia), neutrophilia, and organ and coagulation dysfunction. Disseminated intravascular coagulation and coagulopathy can contribute to death. Anticoagulant treatment is associated with decreased mortality in severe COVID-19 pneumonia. In this report we describe two patients with COVID-19 pneumonia who developed venous thromboembolism.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19 pneumonia, deep vein thrombosis, venous thromboembolism, pulmonary embolism, heparin |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) > 616 Malattie (classificare qui la Clinica medica, la medicina basata sull'evidenza, la Medicina interna, la Medicina sperimentale) |
| Depositing User: | Chiara D'Arpa |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Nov 2020 13:56 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Nov 2020 13:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20002 |
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