Prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19 at the time of hospital admission and role for pre-test probability scores and home treatment
Mitja Jevnikar, Olivier Sanchez, Marc Humbert, Florence Parent
Abstract
We thank A. Porfidia and co-workers for their interest in our study describing the prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) at the time of hospital admission [1]. We fully agree on the need to consider a PE diagnostic algorithm in COVID-19 at the time of hospital admission, because indiscriminate execution of computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) cannot be a workable, routine approach in such patients. There is a high prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients with COVID-19 at the time of hospital admission despite a low level of clinical suspicion <https://bit.ly/3ungLrQ>
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MedicineCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Pulmonary embolismSevere acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)Hospital admissionEmergency medicine2019-20 coronavirus outbreakPulmonary angiographyTest (biology)University hospitalIntensive care medicineDiseaseInternal medicineInfectious disease (medical specialty)PathologyOutbreakPaleontologyBiologyVenous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and ManagementCOVID-19 Clinical Research StudiesCOVID-19 and healthcare impacts