Association between Covid-19 and Pulmonary Embolism (AC-19-PE study)

Thrombosis Research

Volume 196, December 2020, Pages 322-324

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The frequency of PE in COVID patients attending Spanish and French ED is around 0.7%
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The risk of PE in patients coming to ED is more than 7-fold higher in COVID than in non-COVID population.
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However, once PE is suspected and CTPA is ordered, the rate of PE diagnosis is similar in COVID and non-COVID patients.

¹: Full list of members of the Spanish-French Emergency Department Investigative Team (SFEDIT): Hospital Clínic (Barcelona, Spain): Òscar Miró, Carlos Cardozo, Sònia Jiménez; Hospital General de Alicante (Alicante, Spain): Pere Llorens, Barbara Peña; Hospital del Mar (Barcelona, Spain): Alfons Aguirre, Isabel Cirera; Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona, Spain): Laura Lozano, Aitor Alquézar, Mireia Puig; Hôpital Ambroise-Paré (Paris, France): Sebastien Beaune; Rouen University Hospital (Rouen, France): MélanieRoussen, Matthieu Demeyere; Hôpitaux Universitaires de Strasbourg (Strasbourg, France): Pierrick Le Borgne, Pascal Bilbault; University Hospital of Nancy (Nancy, France): TaharChouihed, Adrien Bassand, Romain Gillet, Pedro Antonio Gondim Teixeira; Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière (Paris, France): Yonathan Freund, Samia Boussouar.