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cord-295585-dl29curs	Hékimian, Guillaume	Severe pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients: a call for increased awareness	2020-06-02		.txt	text/plain	906	56	46	Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is associated with severe systemic inflammation and important elevation of fibrinogen and D-dimers that has been associated with a poor prognosis [1, 2] . We retrospectively reviewed characteristics of patients with confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection and acute PE who were admitted to our tertiary ICU, which serves as an ECMO referral center for the Greater Paris. The ICU database was registered with the national data protection authority (CNIL 1950673) . PE was suspected in 6 patients because of acute cor pulmonale at echocardiographic evaluation (online supplementary data). We describe a series of 8 critically ill patients with massive PE following COVID-19 infection. Four of these patients developed PE while on VV-ECMO for severe ARDS, a condition that was not reported in the 156 patients included in the EOLIA trial [3] who received ECMO and in the 350 VV-ECMO patients of the LIFE-GARDS international multicenter prospective cohort [4] . Clinical characteristics of 138 hospitalized patients with 2019 novel coronavirus-infected pneumonia in Wuhan	./cache/cord-295585-dl29curs.txt	./txt/cord-295585-dl29curs.txt