Acute cor pulmonale from saddle pulmonary embolism in a patient with previous COVID-19: should we prolong prophylactic anticoagulation?

The global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has affected more than 6.8 million people globally, with a death toll exceeding 400 000 at the time of writing; almost all countries across the world have been affected. Although COVID-19 has protean clinical manifestations involving almost every organ system in the human body, pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), diarrhoea, septic shock, acute kidney injury (AKI), disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC), and rhabdomyolysis are the more commonly described clinical features (Guan et al., 2020).
Source: International Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Case Report Source Type: research