Spontaneous hemothorax in 4 COVID-19 ARDS patients on VV-ECMO revealing pulmonary artery aneurysms

Cyrielle Desnos (1) , Samia Boussouar (2, 3) , Guillaume Hékimian (1) , Alban Redheuil (3, 2) , Alain Combes (3, 2)

1 CHU Pitié-Salpêtrière [AP-HP]
2 LIB - Laboratoire d'Imagerie Biomédicale [Paris]
3 ICAN - Unité de Recherche sur les Maladies Cardiovasculaires, du Métabolisme et de la Nutrition = Research Unit on Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases

COVID-19 pneumonia is a cause of severe ARDS. Its pathophysiology involves endothelial dysfunction and angiogenesis related to ACE-2 receptor, the host-cell receptor for SARS-CoV-2, expressed by endothelial cells, which may lead to thrombosis or hemorrhage

Domaines: Virologie

Cyrielle Desnos, Samia Boussouar, Guillaume Hékimian, Alban Redheuil, Alain Combes. Spontaneous hemothorax in 4 COVID-19 ARDS patients on VV-ECMO revealing pulmonary artery aneurysms. Critical Care, 2020, 24 (1), ⟨10.1186/s13054-020-03359-7⟩. ⟨hal-03039753⟩