ArticleThe European respiratory journal2023
COVID-19 infection and its impact on case fatality in patients with pulmonary embolism.
Article in The European respiratory journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
20 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 43 citations in OpenAlex.
- The occurrence of thromboembolism among patients with coronavirus disease 2019: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Scientific reports · 2025Pooled it
- In-hospital course of children with COVID-19 infection - Results of the German nationwide inpatient sample.Public health in practice (Oxford, England) · 2025Article
- Pulmonary Embolism in Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients in Romania: Prevalence, Risk Factors, Outcomes.Viruses · 2025Article
- Drivers and recent trends of hospitalisation costs related to acute pulmonary embolism.Clinical research in cardiology : official journal of the German Cardiac Society · 2025Article
- Long-term in-hospital mortality and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after COVID-19-associated pulmonary embolism in France: a nationwide study.ERJ open research · 2025Article
- Time trends of catheter-directed treatment in acute pulmonary embolism in Germany.Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2025Article
- Comparative analysis of COVID-19-associated venous thromboembolism outcomes: evolution from 2020 to 2021-2022.Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis · 2024Article
- Intensive care treatment in acute pulmonary embolism in Germany, 2016 to 2020: a nationwide inpatient database study.Research and practice in thrombosis and haemostasis · 2024Article
- Pathogenic mechanisms of cardiovascular damage in COVID-19.Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Review
- Predicting Acute Cardiovascular Complications in COVID-19: Insights from a Specialized Cardiac Referral Department.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2024Article
- Enhancing Pulmonary Embolism Mortality Risk Stratification Using Machine Learning: The Role of the Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Pulmonary embolism in hospitalized COVID-19 patients: Short- and long-term clinical outcomes.Thrombosis update · 2023Article
- Predisposing factors for admission to intensive care units of patients with COVID-19 infection-Results of the German nationwide inpatient sample.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Patient Characteristics and Predictors of Pulmonary Embolism in Patients Infected with COVID - 19 in Upper Egypt.Vascular health and risk management · 2023Article
- Saddle pulmonary embolism in the setting of COVID-19 infection: A systematic review of case reports and case series.Open medicine (Warsaw, Poland) · 2023Review
- [Pulmonary embolism].Zeitschrift fur Herz-, Thorax- und Gefasschirurgie · 2023Article
- COVID-19 and the cardiovascular system: a study of pathophysiology and interpopulation variability.Frontiers in microbiology · 2023Review
- The intersection of obesity and (long) COVID-19: Hypoxia, thrombotic inflammation, and vascular endothelial injury.Frontiers in cardiovascular medicine · 2023Review
- Pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 infection: a high case-fatality related to pulmonary embolism characteristics.The European respiratory journal · 2023Article
- Temporal Trends in Patients with Peripheral Artery Disease Influenced by COVID-19 Pandemic.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
Corrections and comments
- Commented on by
Authors and funding
11 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
backgroundAlthough a high prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been reported in association with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in critically ill patients, nationwide data on the outcome of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 and PE are still limited. Thus, we investigated seasonal trends and predictors of in-hospital death in patients with COVID-19 and PE in Germany.
methodsWe used a German nationwide inpatient sample to analyse data on hospitalisations among COVID-19 patients with and without PE during 2020, and to detect changes in PE prevalence and case fatality in comparison with 2019.
resultsWe analysed 176 137 COVID-19 hospitalisations in 2020; PE was recorded in 1.9% (n=3362) of discharge certificates. Almost one-third of patients with COVID-19 and PE died during the in-hospital course (28.7%) compared with COVID-19 patients without PE (17.7%). Between 2019 and 2020, numbers of PE-related hospitalisations were largely unchanged (98 485
conclusionsIn Germany, the prevalence of PE events during hospitalisations was similar in 2019 and 2020. However, the fatality rate among patients with both COVID-19 and PE was substantially higher than that in those with only one of these diseases, suggesting a life-threatening additive prognostic impact of the COVID-19-PE combination.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.