D-dimer and C-reactive Protein Blood Levels Over Time Used to Predict Pulmonary Embolism in Two COVID-19 Patients

D-dimer and C-reactive Protein Blood Levels Over Time Used to Predict Pulmonary Embolism in Two COVID-19 Patients

The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is challenging in symptomatic COVID-19 patients since shortness of breath, chest pain, tachycardia, tachypnoea, fever, oxygen desaturation and high D-dimer blood levels might be features of both diseases. We present two COVID-19 patients in whom pulmonary embolism...

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Main Authors: Yael Becher, Leonid Goldman, Nadav Schacham, Irina Gringauz, Dan Justo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SMC MEDIA SRL 2020-05-01
Series:European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine
Subjects:
covid-19
c-reactive protein
d-dimer
pulmonary embolism
Online Access:https://www.ejcrim.com/index.php/EJCRIM/article/view/1725

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