Becher, Yael and Goldman, Leonid and Schacham, Nadav and Gringauz, Irina and Justo, Dan (2020) D-dimer and C-reactive Protein Blood Levels Over Time Used to Predict Pulmonary Embolism in Two COVID-19 Patients. European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 7 (6). pp. 1-4. ISSN ISSN: 2284-2594
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Abstract
The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is challenging in symptomatic COVID-19 patients since shortness of breath, chest pain, tachycardia, tachypnoea, fever, oxygen desaturation and high D-dimer blood levels might be features of both diseases. We present two COVID-19 patients in whom pulmonary embolism was suspected (and diagnosed) due to a discrepancy between an increase in D-dimer blood levels and a decrease in C-reactive protein blood levels over time. We believe that an opposite change in the blood levels of both biomarkers over time may be used as a novel method to predict pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | COVID-19, C-reactive protein, D-dimer, pulmonary embolism |
| Subjects: | 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate 600 Tecnologia - Scienze applicate > 610 Medicina e salute (Classificare qui la tecnologia dei servizi medici) 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: | Marina Spanti |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Dec 2021 12:57 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Dec 2021 12:57 |
| URI: | http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20896 |
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