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cord-272128-93tmtji8	Becher, Yael	D-dimer and C-reactive Protein Blood Levels Over Time Used to Predict Pulmonary Embolism in Two COVID-19 Patients	2020-05-20		.txt	text/plain	1105	58	54	The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is challenging in symptomatic COVID-19 patients since shortness of breath, chest pain, tachycardia, tachypnoea, fever, oxygen desaturation and high D-dimer blood levels might be features of both diseases. We present two COVID-19 patients in whom pulmonary embolism was suspected (and diagnosed) due to a discrepancy between an increase in D-dimer blood levels and a decrease in C-reactive protein blood levels over time. An increase in D-dimer blood levels and a decrease in C-reactive protein blood levels over time may be used as a novel method to predict pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients. The diagnosis of PE is challenging in symptomatic COVID-19 patients since shortness of breath, chest pain, tachycardia, tachypnoea, fever, oxygen desaturation and high D-dimer blood levels might be features of both diseases [2, 3] . Herein, we present two COVID-19 patients in whom PE was predicted by a novel method based on measuring D-dimer and C-reactive protein (CRP) blood levels over time.	./cache/cord-272128-93tmtji8.txt	./txt/cord-272128-93tmtji8.txt