A retrospective review of CT pulmonary angiogram confirmed pulmonary emboli in COVID-19 patients admitted to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town

A retrospective review of CT pulmonary angiogram confirmed pulmonary emboli in COVID-19 patients admitted to Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town

Background: A high incidence of thromboembolic phenomena has been widely reported in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pneumonia. There is, however, a paucity of data detailing the incidence and characteristics of pulmonary emboli (PE) in COVID-19 patients in the South African settin...

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Main Authors:	Petri Ahlers, Mariam Q. Said-Hartley
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	AOSIS 2022-02-01
Series:	South African Journal of Radiology
Subjects:	covid-19 pulmonary emboli computed tomography pulmonary angiogram (ctpa) south africa anticoagulation pregnant tb hiv
Online Access:	https://sajr.org.za/index.php/sajr/article/view/2280

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