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Keenan Mahan1, Christopher Kabrhel2, Andrew J Goldsmith3
1Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America; Department of Emergency Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States of America.
Abstract:
The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic has created diagnostic uncertainty with regards to distinguishing this infection from pulmonary embolism (PE). Although there appears to be an increased incidence of thromboembolic disease in patients with COVID-19 infection, recommendations regarding anticoagulation are lacking. We present the case of a 61-year-old woman with clinically significant venous and arterial thromboemboli in the setting of COVID-19 infection requiring tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).
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