Pulmonary Vascular Thrombosis in COVID-19 Pneumonia

During SARS-CoV-2 infection, dramatic endothelial cell damage with pulmonary microvascular thrombosis has been hypothesized to occur. Our aim was to assess whether pulmonary vascular thrombosis is due to recurrent thromboembolism from peripheral deep vein thrombosis or rather to local inflammatory endothelial damage with a superimposed thrombotic late complication.

Source: Journal of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Anesthesia - January 12, 2021 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Francesco De Cobelli, Diego Palumbo, Fabio Ciceri, Giovanni Landoni, Annalisa Ruggeri, Patrizia Rovere-Querini, Armando D'Angelo, Stephanie Steidler, Laura Galli, Andrea Poli, Evgeny Fominskiy, Maria Grazia Calabr ò, Sergio Colombo, Giacomo Monti, Robert Tags: Original Article Source Type: research