1. Pulmonary artery thrombosis in a patient with severe acute respiratory syndrome
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V C C Cheng, T W Lee, L Chow, Alan K.L. Wu, C Y Chan, B S F Tang, S H Luk, Kwok-Yung Yuen, C Y Yung, and K H L Ng
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Adult ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Anticoagulants - therapeutic use ,Case Report ,Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Respiratory system ,skin and connective tissue diseases ,Immunoglobulins, intravenous - adverse effects ,business.industry ,fungi ,Anticoagulants ,Immunoglobulins, Intravenous ,Pulmonary artery thrombosis ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome - complications - drug therapy - radiography ,Pulmonary embolism - drug therapy - radiography - virology ,Pulmonary embolism ,body regions ,Tomography x ray computed ,Coagulation ,Tomography, x-ray computed - methods ,Emerging infectious disease ,Cardiology ,Female ,Pulmonary Embolism ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business - Abstract
Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) is an emerging infectious disease with both pulmonary and extra-pulmonary manifestations. Although coagulation abnormalities are common in these patients, clinically overt thromboembolic events are rarely reported. This report describes the first case of pulmonary artery thrombosis in a patient with laboratory confirmed SARS., published_or_final_version
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- 2005
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