Pulmonary Angiopathy in Severe COVID-19: Physiologic, Imaging and Hematologic Observations.

CONCLUSIONS: Physiologic, hematologic and imaging data show not only the presence of a hypercoagulable phenotype in severe Covid-19 pneumonia but also markedly impaired pulmonary perfusion likely caused by pulmonary angiopathy and thrombosis. This article is open access and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives License 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). PMID: 32667207 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

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Source: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine - July 14, 2020 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Patel BV, Arachchillage DJ, Ridge CA, Bianchi P, Doyle JF, Garfield B, Ledot S, Morgan C, Passariello M, Price S, Singh S, Thakuria L, Trenfield S, Trimlett R, Weaver C, Wort SJ, Xu T, Padley SPG, Devaraj A, Desai SR, & The Severe Acute Respiratory Fa Tags: Am J Respir Crit Care Med Source Type: research