Abstract Background Since the outbreak of pandemic, severely affected COVID-19 patients receive standard care at intensive unit (ICU), but clinical trials are still ongoing for new expensive treatments. There is a need guiding therapeutic decisions to restrain public healthcare costs and target most efficient therapy. Based on pathophysiology SARS-CoV-2 its ACE2-receptor, angiotensin pathway ac...

In the present study, we evaluated computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) in guiding therapeutic decisions and monitoring patients undergoing percutaneous catheter fragmentation in acute massive pulmonary embolism. From Jan 2003 to Dec 2009, 35 patients were diagnosed with acute massive pulmonary embolism by CTPA (T0) and treated with percutaneous catheter fragmentation. The severity ...