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Multicenter Study
. 2020 Dec:196:322-324.
doi: 10.1016/j.thromres.2020.09.010. Epub 2020 Sep 10.

Association between Covid-19 and Pulmonary Embolism (AC-19-PE study)

Òscar Miró  1 , Pere Llorens  2 , Alfons Aguirre  3 , Laura Lozano  4 , Sebastien Beaune  5 , Mélanie Roussel  6 , Pierrick Le Borgne  7 , Tahar Chouihed  8 , Yonathan Freund  9 ; Spanish-French Emergency Department Investigative Team (SFEDIT)
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Multicenter Study

Association between Covid-19 and Pulmonary Embolism (AC-19-PE study)

Òscar Miró et al. Thromb Res. 2020 Dec.

Abstract

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    The frequency of PE in COVID patients attending Spanish and French ED is around 0.7%

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    The risk of PE in patients coming to ED is more than 7-fold higher in COVID than in non-COVID population.

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    However, once PE is suspected and CTPA is ordered, the rate of PE diagnosis is similar in COVID and non-COVID patients.

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Conflict of interest statement

None author reported any conflict of interest directly or indirectly connected with this manuscript.

Figures

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Fig. 1
Summary of the main findings of the AC-19-PE study. CTPA: computerized tomography pulmonary angiogram; ED: emergency department; PE: pulmonary embolism.
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