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Editor, Senior Moderator
J Vasc Bras
. 2021 Sep 24;20:e20200239.
doi: 10.1590/1677-5449.200239. eCollection 2021.
Extensive pulmonary embolism as complication of oligosymptomatic COVID-19: case report
Ailton Carvalho Barbosa[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lívia Silva de Paula Faria[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Larissa Freitas Peixoto Gloria[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Graziella Viana da Silva[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Paulo Henrique Ribeiro de Oliveira[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fabiano Vieira de Araujo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Felipe Eulalio Baldi Pessanha[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
Abstract
in English, Portuguese
Although the pathophysiology of coagulopathy associated with the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is not well known, occurrence of pulmonary embolism (PE) is frequently observed. However, few cases have been described in the literature in which patients who had asymptomatic COVID-19, with no risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), presented extensive acute PE. We report the case of a patient with asymptomatic COVID-19, complicated by deep vein thrombosis and later by extensive acute PE, suggesting that these conditions should be systematically considered, even in asymptomatic COVID-19 patients with no known risk factors for VTE.
Keywords: covid‐19; deep vein thrombosis; pulmonary embolism.
. 2021 Sep 24;20:e20200239.
doi: 10.1590/1677-5449.200239. eCollection 2021.
Extensive pulmonary embolism as complication of oligosymptomatic COVID-19: case report
Ailton Carvalho Barbosa[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Lívia Silva de Paula Faria[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Larissa Freitas Peixoto Gloria[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Graziella Viana da Silva[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Paulo Henrique Ribeiro de Oliveira[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Fabiano Vieira de Araujo[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Felipe Eulalio Baldi Pessanha[SUP] 1 [/SUP]
Affiliations
- PMID: 35515083
- PMCID: PMC9045534
- DOI: 10.1590/1677-5449.200239
Abstract
in English, Portuguese
Although the pathophysiology of coagulopathy associated with the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is not well known, occurrence of pulmonary embolism (PE) is frequently observed. However, few cases have been described in the literature in which patients who had asymptomatic COVID-19, with no risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE), presented extensive acute PE. We report the case of a patient with asymptomatic COVID-19, complicated by deep vein thrombosis and later by extensive acute PE, suggesting that these conditions should be systematically considered, even in asymptomatic COVID-19 patients with no known risk factors for VTE.
Keywords: covid‐19; deep vein thrombosis; pulmonary embolism.