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. 2020 Sep 21;10(3):2045894020956581.
doi: 10.1177/2045894020956581. eCollection 2020 Jul-Sep.

An unexpected recovery of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case series

Piermario Scuri  1 , Attilio Iacovoni  1 , Raffaele Abete  1   2   3 , Alberto Cereda  4 , Aurelia Grosu  1 , Michele Senni  1
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An unexpected recovery of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case series

Piermario Scuri et al. Pulm Circ. .

Abstract

Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, few cases of COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension have been reported. We present four patients with known history of PAH admitted to our hospital with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia to analyze the impact of this disease on their clinical outcome.

Keywords: COVID-19; pulmonary circulation; pulmonary hypertension.

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Fig. 1.
On the left, chest X-ray showing bilateral interstitial infiltrates with accentuation of the vascular plot, in the absence of pleural effusion. On the right, the same patient after COVID-19 pneumonia resolution.
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