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SUBMITTER: Huang L
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7182625 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Huang Lili L Yin Chunyang C Gu Xiaoyan X Tang Xiaojun X Zhang Xia X Hu Chunmei C Chen Wei W
Journal of thrombosis and thrombolysis 20200501 4
Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is an acute and severe disease with high mortality, which is prone to be misdiagnosed or ignored especially when complicated with tuberculosis (TB). Even though TB has been considered as a risk factor for PTE, there is rare report of TB with PTE worldwide. Which TB patients are more susceptible to PTE is still not clear. Here, we described a case report of PTE with pulmonary TB in a 28-year-old man, who had no risk factors for pulmonary thrombosis at admission and ...[more]