Ludhmila Abrahão Hajjar, Marco B Ancona, Roberto Kalil Filho, Moreno Tresoldi, José Guilherme Caldas, Giacomo Monti, Francisco Cesar Carnevale, Francesco De Cobelli, André Moreira de Assis, Fabio Ciceri, Giovanni Landoni, Jouke Dijkstra, Francesco Moroni, Alexandre Antônio Cunha Abizaid, Fernanda Willemann Ungaretti, Maria José Carvalho Carmona, Daniel De Backer, Carlos Eduardo Pompilio, Fábio S de Britto, Carlos M Campos, Alberto Zangrillo, Matteo Montorfano
BACKGROUND: Microvascular lung vessels obstructive thromboinflammatory syndrome has been proposed as a possible mechanism of respiratory failure in COVID-19 patients. However, it has only been observed in post-mortem studies and has never been documented in vivo , probably because of a lack of CT scan sensitivity in small pulmonary arteries. The aim of the present study was to assess the safety, tolerability, and diagnostic value of optical coherence tomography (OCT) for the assessment of patients with COVID-19 pneumonia for pulmonary microvascular thromboinflammatory syndrome...
2023: Frontiers in Medicine