Pulmonary Embolism/Surgery
Pulmonary embolism in non brain tumor patients after surgery—a retrospective study in China
... The morbidity rate of PE was approximately 135.8 per 100,000 patients in our study. In this study, digestive system cancer (43.4%) accounted for the largest propor- tion, followed by breast cancer (26.3%). These tumors ...
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Multidisciplinary approach to the management of pulmonary embolism patients: the pulmonary embolism response team (PERT)
... of pulmonary, cardiology, hematology, critical care, interventional radiology, or vascular surgery services depending on local availability and referral ...
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Comparative safety and efficacy of antithrombotics in the management of venous thromboembolism after knee or hip replacement surgery: focus on rivaroxaban
... Orthopedic Surgery to Prevent deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) trials (two in total hip replacement and two in total knee replacement) demonstrated rivaroxaban to be the first and only ...
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Systemic Thrombolysis for Intraoperative, High Risk Pulmonary Embolism, Clinical Case
... underwent surgery less than an hour earlier, we decide to proceed with the treatment in view of the general worsening in her ...of pulmonary embolism as shown on Figure ...
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Life Threatening Pulmonary Embolism: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Diagnosis and Management
... acute pulmonary embo- lism are those who have inherited disease predisposing to hypercoagulable states such as: anti-thrombin deficiency, protein C deficiency, protein S deficiency, factor V Lei- den, activated ...
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Role of Early Low Molecular Weight Heparin Prophylaxis in the Surgical Treatment of Degenerative Spinal Diseases in the Elderly Patients
... and pulmonary embolism (PE) are potential complica- tions following major orthopaedic surgical procedures, predominantly total hip arth- roplasty (THA) and total knee arthroplasty (TKA) [1] ...major ...
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Update on acute pulmonary embolism
... The aim of long-term anticoagulant treatment is to prevent fatal and nonfatal recurrence of VTE. VKAs, at a dose adjusted to maintain a target international normalised ratio of 2.5 (range 2– 3), remain the treatment of ...
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Pulmonary Embolism: A Literature Review
... Abstract: Pulmonary embolism is the blockage of a branch of the pulmonary artery by a substance that has traveled from elsewhere in the body through the ...of pulmonary embolisms are caused by ...
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A Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Embolism: Cement Embolism after Vertebroplasty
... open pulmonary wedge resection and ...cement embolism is a mechanical occlusion rather than a vascular clot, and so anticoagulation de- pends on the clinical judgment of ...of pulmonary cement ...
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Pulmonary Embolism in the Pediatric Emergency Department
... In adult emergency medicine, there are validated clinical decision rules derived to provide reliable and reproducible means of determining pretest proba- bility of PE and prevent unnecessary diagnostic testing. Wells ...
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Benefit–risk assessment of rivaroxaban versus enoxaparin for the prevention of venous thromboembolism after total hip or knee arthroplasty
... ORthopaedic surgery to prevent Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism (RECORD) randomized clinical studies of rivaroxaban versus enoxaparin after total hip (THA) or knee (TKA) arthroplasty ...
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An authoritative algorithm most appropriate for the prediction of pulmonary embolism in patients with AECOPD
... pulmonary embolism is ruled out in patients with none of the clinical signs of DVT, hemoptysis, or the most likely probability of pulmonary embolism and a D-dimer level of less than 1000 ng/ml ...
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Management dilemmas in acute pulmonary embolism
... cardiac output, higher pulmonary arterial pressure and more severe tricuspid regurgitation may slow transit of clot from per- ipheral veins to the pulmonary vasculature. 90 Type B consists of immobile, ...
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Combination of Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria and YEARS Algorithm in a European Cohort of Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
... analysis. Pulmonary embolism was confirmed in 188 patients for a PE-prevalence of ...underwent surgery in the last four weeks or immobilization for more than three days (Table ...
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Predictive value of troponins and simplified pulmonary embolism severity index in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism
... or pulmonary diseases, are import- ant prognostic factors in patients with pulmonary embolism(PE) at hospital admission ...The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index(PESI) is one of the ...
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Acute ECG ST-segment elevation mimicking myocardial infarction in a patient with pulmonary embolism
... of pulmonary embo- lism are of low sensitivity and specificity ...of pulmonary embolism, but exact mechanism of this ECG changes remained unclear ...Paradoxical embolism was suggested as ...
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Pathways for outpatient management of venous thromboembolism in a UK centre.
... In Sheffield, we review patients at approximately 3 months following their acute PE at a consultant-led, combined respiratory-haematology clinic. The patient’s initial history and radiological investigations are reviewed ...
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Concurrent Massive Pulmonary Embolism and Brachial Artery Embolism in a Genetic Background
... rent pulmonary thromboembolism and brachial artery embolism, who showed PAI-1 and ACE D/D muta- tions in genetic ...massive pulmonary thromboembolism and brachial artery ...
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Syncope as a presentation of acute pulmonary embolism
... The three major pathophysiological mechanisms pro- posed for the development of syncope in APE are acute right heart failure, hemodynamically unstable dysrhythmia (such as bradycardia or tachycardia), and vasovagal ...
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... the pulmonary arterial system and RV resulting in RVD ...of Pulmonary Artery to Ascending Aorta diameter (PA/Ao), increased Superior Vena Cava (SVC) diameter and reflux of intravenous contrast material into ...
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