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Detection of prevalence and severity of (subclinical) pulmonary artery emboli in the setting of COVID-19 disease using pulmonary ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy.

Conditions
I26
Pulmonary embolism
Registration Number
DRKS00023606
Lead Sponsor
niversitätsklinikum Augsburg - Nuklearmedizin
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Complete
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
6
Inclusion Criteria

Patients with condition after PCR-proven SARS-CoV-2 infection and again negative PCR after recovery, regardless of further therapeutic measures, if the patients had to undergo hospitalisation in connection with the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

Exclusion Criteria

1. pregnant or breastfeeding women
2. minors and patients with mental illness or such patients,
who are unable to give written informed consent to the study
3. haemodynamically unstable patients or patients with acute myocardial infarction (ST-segment elevation, creatinine kinase or MB isoenzyme elevation > 3 times the normal value)
4. bronchial asthma/COPD
5. known allergy to chicken egg white or charcoal
6. known cardiac right-to-left shunt
7. renal insufficiency (serum creatinine >2.0 mg/dl or GFR <30ml/min)
8. patients with claustrophobia
9. patients with previously diagnosed pulmonary artery embolism

Study & Design

Study Type
observational
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy of patients immediately after COVID 19 infection requiring hospital admission (1-2 weeks after negative throat swab/rinse PCR for SARS-CoV-2) and at 3 and 12 month intervals will be used to assess the frequency, time of manifestation and persistence, if any, of pulmonary artery emboli occurring in patients with COVID 19 infection.
Secondary Outcome Measures
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