COVID-19 Complicated by Acute Pulmonary Embolism and Right-Sided Heart Failure

Waqas Ullah, MD; Rehan Saeed, MD; Usman Sarwar, MD; Rajesh Patel, MD; David L. Fischman, MD

JACC: Case Reports (Jul 2020)

COVID-19 Complicated by Acute Pulmonary Embolism and Right-Sided Heart Failure

Waqas Ullah, MD,
Rehan Saeed, MD,
Usman Sarwar, MD,
Rajesh Patel, MD,
David L. Fischman, MD

Affiliations

Waqas Ullah, MD: Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania; Address for correspondence: Dr. Waqas Ullah, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, 1200 Old York Road, Abington, Pennsylvania 19001.
Rehan Saeed, MD: Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania
Usman Sarwar, MD: Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania
Rajesh Patel, MD: Internal Medicine, Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health, Abington, Pennsylvania
David L. Fischman, MD: Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Journal volume & issue: Vol. 2, no. 9
pp. 1379 – 1382

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A patient with coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) developed sudden shortness of breath and hypoxia. She received a diagnosis of massive pulmonary embolism complicated by right-sided heart failure, which was successfully managed conservatively. This case marks the first report of COVID-19–induced pulmonary embolism in association with acute heart failure. (Level of Difficulty: Beginner.)

Published in JACC: Case Reports

ISSN: 2666-0849 (Online)
Publisher: Elsevier
Country of publisher: United States
LCC subjects: Medicine: Internal medicine: Specialties of internal medicine: Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/jacc-case-reports

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