COVID-19 in pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a reference centre survey

Catharina Belge; Rozenn Quarck; Laurent Godinas; David Montani; Pilar Escribano Subias; Jean-Luc Vachiéry; Heba Nashat; Joanna Pepke-Zaba; Marc Humbert; Marion Delcroix

doi:10.1183/23120541.00520-2020

COVID-19 in pulmonary arterial hypertension and chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension: a reference centre survey

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Nov 2;6(4):00520-2020. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00520-2020. eCollection 2020 Oct.

Authors

Catharina Belge^{1

2}, Rozenn Quarck^{1

2}, Laurent Godinas¹, David Montani^{3

4

5}, Pilar Escribano Subias⁶, Jean-Luc Vachiéry⁷, Heba Nashat⁸, Joanna Pepke-Zaba⁹, Marc Humbert^{3

4

5}, Marion Delcroix¹

Affiliations

¹ Clinical Dept of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospitals and Laboratory of Respiratory Diseases & Thoracic Surgery (BREATHE), Dept of Chronic Diseases & Metabolism (CHROMETA), KU Leuven - University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
² These authors contributed equally.
³ Univ. Paris-Sud, Faculté de Médecine, Université Paris-Saclay, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
⁴ Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Service de Pneumologie, Centre de Référence de l'Hypertension Pulmonaire, Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin Bicêtre, France.
⁵ Inserm UMR_S 999, Hôpital Marie Lannelongue, Le Plessis Robinson, France.
⁶ Cardiology Dept and Spanish Cardiovascular Research Network (CIBER-CV), Hospital Universitario 12 de Octubre, Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Dept of Cardiology, Cliniques Universitaires de Bruxelles, Hôpital Académique Erasme, Brussels, Belgium.
⁸ National Pulmonary Hypertension Service at Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust and National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London, London, UK.
⁹ Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Unit, Royal Papworth Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Abstract

This international survey highlights that a limited number of PAH and CTEPH patients suffered from severe #COVID19 infection https://bit.ly/3jGuBQq.