Mortality and Pulmonary Embolism in Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome From COVID-19 vs. Non-COVID-19

Copyright © 2022 Kutsogiannis, Alharthy, Balhamar, Faqihi, Papanikolaou, Alqahtani, Memish, Brindley, Brochard and Karakitsos..

Purpose: There may be a difference in respiratory mechanics, inflammatory markers, and pulmonary emboli in COVID-19 associated ARDS vs. ARDS from other etiologies. Our purpose was to determine differences in respiratory mechanics, inflammatory markers, and incidence of pulmonary embolism in patients with and without COVID-19 associated ARDS admitted in the same period and treated with a similar ventilation strategy.

Methods: A cohort study of COVID-19 associated ARDS and non COVID-19 patients in a Saudi Arabian center between June 1 and 15, 2020. We measured respiratory mechanics (ventilatory ratio (VR), recruitability index (RI), markers of inflammation, and computed tomography pulmonary angiograms.

Results: Forty-two patients with COVID-19 and 43 non-COVID patients with ARDS comprised the cohort. The incidence of "recruitable" patients using the recruitment/inflation ratio was slightly lower in COVID-19 patients (62 vs. 86%; p = 0.01). Fifteen COVID-19 ARDS patients (35.7%) developed a pulmonary embolism as compared to 4 (9.3%) in other ARDS patients (p = 0.003). In COVID-19 patients, a D-Dimer ≥ 5.0 mcg/ml had a 73% (95% CI 45-92%) sensitivity and 89% (95% CI 71-98%) specificity for predicting pulmonary embolism. Crude 60-day mortality was higher in COVID-19 patients (35 vs. 15%; p = 0.039) but three multivariate analysis showed that independent predictors of 60-day mortality included the ventilatory ratio (OR 3.67, 95% CI 1.61-8.35), PaO2/FIO2 ratio (OR 0.93; 95% CI 0.87-0.99), IL-6 (OR 1.02, 95% CI 1.00-1.03), and D-dimer (OR 7.26, 95% CI 1.11-47.30) but not COVID-19 infection.

Conclusion: COVID-19 patients were slightly less recruitable and had a higher incidence of pulmonary embolism than those with ARDS from other etiologies. A high D-dimer was predictive of pulmonary embolism in COVID-19 patients. COVID-19 infection was not an independent predictor of 60-day mortality in the presence of ARDS.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:9

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in medicine - 9(2022) vom: 16., Seite 800241

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Kutsogiannis, Demetrios J [VerfasserIn]
Alharthy, Abdulrahman [VerfasserIn]
Balhamar, Abdullah [VerfasserIn]
Faqihi, Fahad [VerfasserIn]
Papanikolaou, John [VerfasserIn]
Alqahtani, Saleh A [VerfasserIn]
Memish, Ziad A [VerfasserIn]
Brindley, Peter G [VerfasserIn]
Brochard, Laurent [VerfasserIn]
Karakitsos, Dimitrios [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Acute respiratory distress syndrome
COVID-19
Interleukin-6 (IL-6)
Journal Article
Pulmonary embolism
Recruitment inflation ratio
Respiratory mechanics
Ventilatory ratio

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Date Revised 22.03.2022

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fmed.2022.800241

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM338390618