Trends in COVID-19-associated mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension: a COMPERA analysis

Kai-Helge Schmidt; Katrin Milger; Christine Pausch; Doerte Huscher; David Pittrow; Ekkehard Grünig; Gerd Staehler; Henning Gall; Oliver Distler; Dirk Skowasch; Michael Halank; Heinrike Wilkens; Matthias Held; Hans Klose; Marius M Hoeper

doi:10.1183/13993003.02440-2022

Trends in COVID-19-associated mortality in patients with pulmonary hypertension: a COMPERA analysis

Eur Respir J. 2023 Apr 27;61(4):2202440. doi: 10.1183/13993003.02440-2022. Print 2023 Apr.

Authors

Kai-Helge Schmidt¹, Katrin Milger², Christine Pausch³, Doerte Huscher⁴, David Pittrow^{3

5}, Ekkehard Grünig⁶, Gerd Staehler⁷, Henning Gall^{8

9}, Oliver Distler¹⁰, Dirk Skowasch¹¹, Michael Halank¹², Heinrike Wilkens¹³, Matthias Held¹⁴, Hans Klose¹⁵, Marius M Hoeper^{16

17}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Cardiology and Center of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (CTH), University Medical Center Mainz, Mainz, Germany.
² Department of Medicine V, University Hospital, LMU Munich, Comprehensive Pneumology Center Munich (CPC-M), member of the German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Munich, Germany.
³ GWT-TUD GmbH, Innovation Center Real-World Evidence, Dresden, Germany.
⁴ Institute of Biometry and Clinical Epidemiology, and Berlin Institute of Health, Charité-Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany.
⁵ Institute for Clinical Pharmacology, Medical Faculty, Technical University, Dresden, Germany.
⁶ Center for Pulmonary Hypertension, Thoraxklinik at Heidelberg University Hospital, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Heidelberg, Germany.
⁷ Fachklinik Löwenstein, Löwenstein, Germany.
⁸ Department of Internal Medicine, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Universities of Giessen and Marburg Lung Center (UGMLC), Giessen, Germany.
⁹ German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Germany.
¹⁰ Department of Rheumatology, University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
¹¹ Universitätsklinikum Bonn, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik II, Innere Medizin - Kardiologie/Pneumologie, Bonn, Germany.
¹² Universitätsklinikum Carl Gustav Carus der Technischen Universität Dresden, Medizinische Klinik und Poliklinik I, Dresden, Germany.
¹³ Klinik für Innere Medizin V, Pneumologie, Universitätsklinikum des Saarlandes, Homburg, Germany.
¹⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Respiratory Medicine and Ventilatory Support, Medical Mission Hospital, Central Clinic Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany.
¹⁵ Department of Respiratory Medicine, Eppendorf University Hospital, Hamburg, Germany.
¹⁶ German Center of Lung Research (DZL), Germany hoeper.marius@mh-hannover.de.
¹⁷ Department of Respiratory Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.

Abstract

In patients with pulmonary hypertension, the mortality rate associated with COVID-19 has declined sharply with the emergence of the Omicron variants https://bit.ly/42OMsfj

Publication types

Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

COVID-19*
Humans
Hypertension, Pulmonary*
Registries
Risk Assessment