1. Detection of Pulmonary Embolism in Returning Travelers with Hypoxemic Pneumonia due to COVID-19 in Reunion Island
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Thierry Vitry, Léa Bruneau, Jean Yves Travers, Jérôme Allyn, Michel Andre, Laurie Masse, Adrien Maillot, Kevin Larsen, Nicolas Allou, Marie Lagrange-Xelot, Alexandre Angelino, Emilie Foch, and Nathalie Coolen-Allou
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Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Deep vein ,030231 tropical medicine ,Pneumonia, Viral ,Comoros ,Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products ,03 medical and health sciences ,Betacoronavirus ,0302 clinical medicine ,Virology ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Pulmonary angiography ,Humans ,Hypoxia ,Lung ,Pandemics ,Aged ,Aged, 80 and over ,Venous Thrombosis ,Travel ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,SARS-CoV-2 ,Angiography ,COVID-19 ,Articles ,Middle Aged ,medicine.disease ,Thrombosis ,Pulmonary embolism ,Pneumonia ,Infectious Diseases ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Cohort ,Cardiology ,Parasitology ,Female ,France ,business ,Coronavirus Infections ,Pulmonary Embolism ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,Reunion - Abstract
The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of pulmonary embolism in returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19. All returning travelers to Reunion Island with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 underwent computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and were included in the cohort. Thirty-five patients were returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 and had recently returned from one of the countries most affected by the COVID-19 outbreak (mainly from France and Comoros archipelago). Five patients (14.3%) were found to have pulmonary embolism and two (5.9%) were incidentally found to have deep vein thrombosis on CTPA. Patients with pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis had higher D-dimer levels than those without pulmonary embolism or deep vein thrombosis (P = 0.04). Returning travelers with hypoxemic pneumonia due to COVID-19 should be systematically screened for pulmonary embolism.
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- 2020