Solid data is lacking, but an emerging body of evidence suggests that COVID-19 may predispose patients to arterial and venous thrombotic disease, and that some of the therapies under investigation may pose distinct drug-drug interactions with common antithrombotic medications…
We report five cases of large-vessel stroke in patients younger than 50 years of age who presented to our health system in New York City. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection was diagnosed in all five patients…
La comunità scientifica desidera contribuire al governo di questa emergenza, proponendo un modello di gestione del paziente con ictus cerebrale acuto che tenga conto della nuova realtà epidemiologica e, soprattutto, della rimodulazione del setting in cui gli operatori sanitari, e in particolare i Neurologi coinvolti nella cura del paziente con ictus, sono chiamati ad operare…
Partendo dalle evidenze presenti in letteratura, lo scopo di questo articolo è analizzare i possibili meccanismi coinvolti nel processo coagulativo a seguito dell’infezione da COVID-19 e quali potrebbero essere le strategie terapeutiche vascolari da poter attuare…
We report a case-series of COVID-19 patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) in our institution. Lille University Hospital is the tertiary care center for the North-of-France, the 2nd French region in population density (189 p/km2), also considered as a “metabolic” area with high number of overweight patients. The study was approved by the Institutional data protection authority of Lille University Hospital…
L’attuale grave epidemia, o forse pandemia, del nuovo coronavirus COVID-19 emerso in Cina a Wuhan alla fine del 2019 ha dimostrato di avere un devastante impatto planetario di salute pubblica. Le implicazioni cardiologiche del coronavirus COVID-19 sono tutt’altro che marginali e costituiscono l’occasione per richiamare l’attenzione del cardiologo sulle rilevanti interazioni tra infezioni da virus respiratori o altri agenti patogeni e rischio cardiovascolare…
The present COVID-19 outbreak emphasizes the need for greater awareness of the immediate and long-term cardiovascular implications of viral infection and the significant gaps in knowledge that future research will need to address…
A relatively high mortality of severe coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is worrying, and the application of heparin in COVID‐19 has been recommended by some expert consensus because of the risk of disseminated intravascular coagulation and venous thromboembolism. However, its efficacy remains to be validated…
Si riprendono le attività: come tutelare noi stessi ed i nostri Pazienti in caso di visita medica od esame diagnostico? Abbiamo imparato dalle nostre stesse esperienze che quasi sin da subito il criterio epidemiologico ha perso ogni significato al fine di individuare persone che fossero state esposte al contagio da Coronavirus…
L’ecografia è, fra le tecniche di Imaging, quella che comporta la maggiore interazione fra medico e paziente. Purtroppo, in questo momento di emergenza per il diffondersi della infezione da COVID-19, quello che da sempre è l’elemento positivo dell’ecografia diventa un importante elemento potenzialmente negativo determinando, se eseguito non in sicurezza, un aumentato rischio di contagio fra medico e paziente…
This statement has been written on behalf of the WFUMB Safety Committee as official guidance with collaboration of experts from various affiliated Federations. Whilst this statement ensures that a consistent approach to infection prevention and safe ultrasound practices are implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic, there may be some operational and organizational differences at the local level…
La SIECVI, al pari di altre Società, vista l’importanza del fenomeno sanitario ha deciso di formulare un documento finalizzato a sottolineare l’importanza di una corretta procedura di indicazione ed esecuzione dell’ecocardiogramma in corso di pandemia COVID-19…
In relazione alla Pandemia da COVID-19 dichiarata il 10 Marzo 2020, si definiscono le norme di esecuzione degli esami di ultrasonografia vascolare per i professionisti del settore. È stato dimostrato che l’infezione virale viene trasmessa attraverso il contatto ravvicinato e in particolare attraverso droplet, pertanto esiste un rischio elevato di trasmissione tra paziente infetto e medico vascolare esecutore dell’esame e viceversa…
The World Health Organization has recently defined the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection a pandemic. The infection, that may cause a potentially very severe respiratory disease, now called coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), has airborne transmission via droplets…
The European Society of Neurosonology and Cerebral Hemodynamics (ESNCH) would like to provide a guide to Neurosonographers on how to work safely in their laboratories and protect their patients during the Coronavirus-19 (COVID-19) pandemic…
Adequate transducer preparation is mandatory to protect patients from potential infection. The level of preparation depends on the type of examination performed. Preparation of external transducers between patients requires a low-level disinfection (LLD) process…
With the unprecedented Covid-19 pandemic, new challenges in caring for patients have arisen. There is considerable variability in the prevalence of the virus as well as the availability of personal protective equipment around the world…
Special attention needs to be paid to COVID-19 and other respiratory infection cases requiring aerosolization procedures, i.e. mechanical ventilation, aerosolization application, etc. Here a transducer cover should be used and the entire equipment requires full LLD (top to bottom) as pathogens are likely to become airborne…
Routine screening CT for the identification of COVID-19 pneumonia is currently not recommended by most radiology societies. However, the number of CTs performed in persons under investigation (PUI) for COVID-19 has increased…
The proposal for international standardization of the use of lung ultrasonography (LUS) for patients with COVID-19 was released on March 30, 2020, by an Italian team comprising physicians currently involved in the clinical management of COVID-19 and experts in ultrasound physics and image analysis…