Rising COVID-19 related acute pulmonary emboli but falling national chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension referrals from a large national dataset.

Rising COVID-19 related acute pulmonary emboli but falling national chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension referrals from a large national dataset.

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Peer-reviewed

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https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/330814

Repository DOI

https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.78257

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Authors

Newman, Joseph

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5514-0754

Boubriak, Iryna

Ruggiero, Alessandro

Abstract

The average rate of new #CTEPH referrals has dropped by 32% in the UK during the pandemic, despite the high incidence of #COVID19 related pulmonary emboli. There have been no recorded new cases of CTEPH caused by COVID-19. A prospective study is underway. https://bit.ly/37msP2G.

Keywords

32 Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, 3202 Clinical Sciences, Emerging Infectious Diseases, Coronaviruses Disparities and At-Risk Populations, Infectious Diseases, Lung, Coronaviruses

Journal Title

ERJ Open Res

Journal ISSN

2312-0541
2312-0541

Volume Title

7

Publisher

European Respiratory Society (ERS)

Publisher DOI

https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00431-2021

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