H1N1-Induced Venous Thromboembolic Events? Results of a Single-Institution Case Series

Evangelos Dimakakos; Dimitra Grapsa; Ioannis Vathiotis; Aggeliki Papaspiliou; Meropi Panagiotarakou; Emmanouil Manolis; Konstantinos Syrigos

doi:10.1093/ofid/ofw214

H1N1-Induced Venous Thromboembolic Events? Results of a Single-Institution Case Series

Open Forum Infect Dis. 2016 Dec 20;3(4):ofw214. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofw214. eCollection 2016 Oct.

Authors

Evangelos Dimakakos¹, Dimitra Grapsa¹, Ioannis Vathiotis¹, Aggeliki Papaspiliou², Meropi Panagiotarakou³, Emmanouil Manolis⁴, Konstantinos Syrigos¹

Affiliations

¹ 3rd Department of Medicine.
² 9th Pulmonary Clinic.
³ 6th Pulmonary Clinic , and.
⁴ Central Respiratory Failure-Intensive Care Unit, "Sotiria" General Hospital, Medical School, University of Athens , Greece.

Abstract

We describe the clinical and imaging characteristics of 7 cases with polymerase chain reaction-confirmed novel influenza A H1N1 virus (pH1N1) infection who developed venous thromboembolic events (VTEs) while being hospitalized for influenza pneumonia. Pulmonary embolism (PE) without deep vein thrombosis (DVT) was observed in 6 of 7 cases (85.7%); PE with underlying DVT was found in 1 patient (14.3%).

Keywords: deep vein thrombosis; influenza; pH1N1; pulmonary embolism; venous thromboembolic events.