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

Joseph Newman; Iryna Boubriak; David Jenkins; Choo Ng; Alessandro Ruggiero; Nicholas Screaton; John Cannon; Mark Toshner

doi:10.1183/23120541.00431-2021

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

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Oct 11;7(4):00431-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00431-2021. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Joseph Newman¹, Iryna Boubriak¹, David Jenkins¹, Choo Ng¹, Alessandro Ruggiero¹, Nicholas Screaton¹, John Cannon¹, Mark Toshner^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
² Dept of Medicine, Heart Lung Research Institute, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.

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.