Excess out-of-hospital deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence of pulmonary embolism as a main determinant

Joseph Benzakoun; Ghazi Hmeydia; Tania Delabarde; Lilia Hamza; Jean-François Meder; Bertrand Ludes; Alexandre Mebazaa

doi:10.1002/ejhf.1916

Excess out-of-hospital deaths during the COVID-19 outbreak: evidence of pulmonary embolism as a main determinant

Eur J Heart Fail. 2020 Jun;22(6):1046-1047. doi: 10.1002/ejhf.1916. Epub 2020 Jun 29.

Authors

Joseph Benzakoun^{1

2

3}, Ghazi Hmeydia^{1

2}, Tania Delabarde^{4

5

6}, Lilia Hamza^{5

6}, Jean-François Meder^{1

2

3}, Bertrand Ludes^{3

4

5

6}, Alexandre Mebazaa^{3

7

8}

Affiliations

¹ Service d'Imagerie Morphologique et Fonctionnelle, GHU Paris, Centre Hospitalier Sainte-Anne, Paris, France.
² INSERM UMR 1266, Institut de Psychiatrie et Neurosciences de Paris, Paris, France.
³ Université de Paris, Paris, France.
⁴ Université de Paris, BABEL, CNRS, Paris, France.
⁵ Institut Médico-Légal de Paris, Paris, France.
⁶ Pôle Universitaire d'Imagerie Post-Mortem, Université Paris Descartes, Paris, France.
⁷ Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, AP-HP, Saint Louis Lariboisière University Hospitals; FHU PROMICE, Paris, France.
⁸ INSERM UMR-S 942, Paris, France.

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Betacoronavirus*
COVID-19
Coronavirus Infections / complications
Coronavirus Infections / mortality*
Disease Outbreaks
Global Health
Humans
Pandemics
Pneumonia, Viral / complications
Pneumonia, Viral / mortality*
Pulmonary Embolism / etiology
Pulmonary Embolism / mortality*
SARS-CoV-2
Survival Rate / trends