An unexpected recovery of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case series

Piermario Scuri; Attilio Iacovoni; Raffaele Abete; Alberto Cereda; Aurelia Grosu; Michele Senni

doi:10.1177/2045894020956581

An unexpected recovery of patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension and SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia: a case series

Pulm Circ. 2020 Sep 21;10(3):2045894020956581. doi: 10.1177/2045894020956581. eCollection 2020 Jul-Sep.

Authors

Piermario Scuri¹, Attilio Iacovoni¹, Raffaele Abete^{1

2

3}, Alberto Cereda⁴, Aurelia Grosu¹, Michele Senni¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology, ASST Ospedale Papa Giovanni XXIII, Bergamo, Italy.
² Department of Cardiology, Policlinico di Monza, Monza, Italy.
³ Department of Cardiology, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy.
⁴ GVM Care and Research, Ravenna, Italy.

Abstract

Since the beginning of the SARS-CoV-2 outbreak, few cases of COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension have been reported. We present four patients with known history of PAH admitted to our hospital with SARS-CoV-2 pneumonia to analyze the impact of this disease on their clinical outcome.

Keywords: COVID-19; pulmonary circulation; pulmonary hypertension.