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cord-262878-ygvbqmxd	de Carranza, María	Aortic thrombus in patients with severe COVID-19: review of three cases	2020-07-09		.txt	text/plain	1895	93	39	Thrombotic arterial events (APE or cerebral stroke) have been previously related to other viral infections, especially among HIV patients, but no acute aortic events have been reported [10] . In our hospital, we established a specific screening protocol to rule out APE in COVID-19 patients with a significant increase of D-Dimer, even with the improvement of clinical and analytical parameters. CXR presented a rapid progression of opacities and a significant increase in acute reactants such as ferritin and IL-6 were detected, so a single dose of 600 mg of tocilizumab was administered following hospital protocols (severity criteria). We have described three moderate-severe COVID-19 patients over 60 years with cardiovascular risk factors, who presented aortic thrombus despite the use of LMWH prophylaxis, in slow and poor clinical progression with highly increased inflammatory markers. Our local incidence for incidental aortic thrombus is 0.75% in moderate-severe COVID-19 patients, representing 6.6% of 45 cases of arterial thrombosis (including pulmonary embolism). High incidence of venous thromboembolic events in anticoagulated severe COVID-19 patients	./cache/cord-262878-ygvbqmxd.txt	./txt/cord-262878-ygvbqmxd.txt