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| Year : 2020 | Volume
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| Issue : 4 | Page : 123-125 |
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Concomitant acute aortic thrombosis and pulmonary embolism complicating COVID-19 pneumonia
Hassan H Allam1, Abdulhalim Jamal Kinsara2, Amt Alkhaliq A Alrajawi1, Tareq Tuiama1
1 King Abdullah Medical Complex, Ministry of Health, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
2 Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, COM-WR, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Correspondence Address:
Dr. Abdulhalim Jamal Kinsara
Department of Cardiology, King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Ministry of National Guard-Health Affairs, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, COM-WR, Jeddah
Saudi Arabia
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DOI: 10.4103/hm.hm_34_20
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There is rapidly accumulating literature regarding the hypercoagulable state associated with patients diagnosed with COVID-19 infection. Pulmonary, cardiac, and visceral involvement has been described. We describe a middle-aged male, with a background of diabetes and hypertension, diagnosed with severe COVID-19, who passed away despite maximum support. He had concomitant aortic and pulmonary thrombus. This is a devastating, poorly understood complication of severe COVID-19, adding to the body of medical literature related to severe COVID-19. COVID-19 is a hypercoagulable disease, and multi-organ involvement should be considered. Aortic imaging during a computed tomography pulmonary angiography can add additional information to the risk stratification and clinical implications in a patient diagnosed with COVID-19, with a suspected hypercoagulable state and possible multi-organ involvement.
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