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cord-285946-1q4k5bnh	Birk, Rubinder	Low detection rate of pulmonary embolism in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a single-centre UK study	2020-09-23		.txt	text/plain	3336	187	55	authors: Birk, Rubinder; Shaw, Dominick; Kennedy, Cheika; Higashi, Yutaro; Patel, Roma; Gupta, Ayushman; Au-Yong, Iain title: Low detection rate of pulmonary embolism in patients presenting to the emergency department with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19): a single-centre UK study The study group consisted of patients considered COVID-19 positive based on polymerase chain reaction (PCR) results and CTPA findings. The study cohort included all patients attending ED who underwent CTPA on the NUH COVID-19 pathway in whom a diagnosis of COVID-19 was made by PCR on a nasopharyngeal swab or with high suspicion of COVID-19 on CT (irrespective of clinical presentation). We therefore also studied a separate smaller cohort of 50 consecutive patients presenting to ED at our institution undergoing CTPA for suspected PE before the coronavirus pandemic in September 2019 (control group 2). PE prevalence in the study group was significantly lower when compared to patients in control group 1 undergoing CTPA for suspected PE only who had no CT features of COVID-19, p = 0.018.	./cache/cord-285946-1q4k5bnh.txt	./txt/cord-285946-1q4k5bnh.txt