Pulm Circ . The course of COVID-19 in a 55-year-old patient diagnosed with severe idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

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Pulm Circ


. 2020 Jul 28;10(3):2045894020936659.
doi: 10.1177/2045894020936659. eCollection Jul-Sep 2020.
The course of COVID-19 in a 55-year-old patient diagnosed with severe idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension


Diana Mandler[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Mona Lichtblau[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Silvia Ulrich[SUP] 1 [/SUP]



Affiliations

• PMID: 32782784
• PMCID: PMC7388132
• DOI: 10.1177/2045894020936659

Abstract

We describe a 55-year-old woman with severe idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (mean pulmonary artery pressure 71 mmHg, pulmonary vascular resistance 30 WU at diagnosis five months ago), who was diagnosed with SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19) and experienced a relatively mild course with symptoms resembling a common cold. To date, information about the clinical course of COVID-19 in pre-existing pulmonary arterial hypertension is lacking, and it is thus unknown whether pulmonary arterial hypertension belongs to the risk factors of severe COVID-19 disease.

Keywords: COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; pulmonary arterial hypertension.