title: Diagnosis and Management of Pneumonia and Other Respiratory Infections
author: Alan Fein
description: Alan Fein, MD is Chief, Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine at ProHEALTH Care Associates, LLP and Clinical Professor of Medicine at Hofstra North Shore LU School of Medicine. Ronald Grossman, MD is Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto. David Ost, MD, MPH is Associate Professor and Director of Clinical Research at the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Arunabh Talwar, MD is Associate Professor of Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Sara Merwin, MPH is Research Associate, Department of Medicine at the North Shore University Hospital and Instructor of Medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.
zlib_text: The Lancet Infectious Diseases
   
  Findings of acute pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients
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  Manuscript Number:
  THELANCETID-D-20-00678
  Article Type:
  Article (Original Research)
  Keywords:
  SAR-CoV-2, COVID-19, Pneumonia,Acute pulmonary embolism
  Corresponding Author:
  Yuanliang Xie, M.D.
  Central Hospital of Wuhan, Tongji Medical College, HUST
  Wuhan, Hubei CHINA
  First Author:
  Jianpu Chen, MD
  Order of Authors:
  Jianpu Chen, MD
  Xiang Wang, MD
  Shutong Zhang, MD
  Bin Liu, MD
  Xiaoqing Wu, MD
  Yanfang Wang, MD
  Xiaoqi Wang, PHD
  Ming Yang, MD
  Jianqing Sun, PHD
  Yuanliang Xie, MD
  Manuscript Region of Origin:
  CHINA
  Abstract:
  Summary
  Background
  Elevated level of D-dimer was reported in some patients with COVID-19 pneumonia on
  admission, especially in severe COVID-19 patients. However, it was still unknown this
  abnormality was associated with acute pulmonary embolism (APE). This study aimed
  to uncover the findings of APE diagnosed by computed tomography pulmonary
  angiography (CTPA) in 