Re: Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism in ED patients with Suspected COVID‐19: The Truth Remains Unknown

Authors :: Yonathan Freund
Ben Bloom
Marine Cachanado
Marie Drogrey
Service des Urgences [CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière]
Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP]
Sorbonne Université (SU)-Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Sorbonne Université - Faculté de Médecine (SU FM)
Sorbonne Université (SU)
CHU Saint-Antoine [AP-HP]
Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP) (AP-HP)-Sorbonne Université (SU)
Barts Health NHS Trust [London, UK]
Source :: Academic Emergency Medicine, Academic Emergency Medicine, Wiley, 2020, 27 (11), pp.1218-1218. ⟨10.1111/acem.14138⟩
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Wiley, 2020.
Abstract: International audience; We thank « John Doe » et al. for their interest and comments on our paper “Association between Pulmonary Embolism and COVID‐19 in ED patients: the PEPCOV international retrospective study”. The authors raised the important issue of a possible bias, because we only analyzed patients that were tested for pulmonary embolism (PE) with computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (CTPA). We acknowledge that this is a limitation, and accordingly highlighted in our manuscript that whether these results apply to the general population is unknown.

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