Proyecto de titulación embargado con fines de de publicación de impacto

Abstract

COVID-19 infection includes several clinical manifestations ranging from cough, fever, myalgia, dyspnea, fatigue and rhinorrhea to an asymptomatic infection in some cases, to this is added and gains importance as a complication of COVID-19 coagulation diseases among which we find pulmonary thromboembolism and in fact has been able to identify patients who have come to die from this cause, generating on this basis the objective of this research and as a point to take into account in the hospital environment and by the general population the risk factors that may influence the development of PTE in adults with a diagnosis of COVID-19, in addition to the cases in which these pathologies are related and the mortality they generate. A literature review was performed and included meta-analyses, systematic reviews, review articles and research articles from different databases published between 2020-2022 in English and Spanish languages. It was concluded that there are risk factors conducive to the development of PTE associated with COVID-19 and each of them in greater or lesser relationship so they should be considered and associated taking into account that distinction, regarding the relationship of these pathologies the ranges are variable so the presentation of this complication cannot be excluded and on mortality there is an upward trend in cases of PTE associated with COVID-19.