Suspected pulmonary embolism
Prognosis of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism in Buenos Aires: a prospective cohort study
... with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in whom PE has been ruled out (RPE) is ...in suspected PE patients at follow ...of suspected PE in ...outpatients. Suspected PE cases were ...
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Value of venous color flow duplex scan as initial screening test for geriatric inpatients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism
... for pulmonary embolism has been demonstrated by many ...clinically suspected pulmonary embolism is not very high ...clinically suspected pulmonary ...
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Economic evaluation of a clinical protocol for diagnosing emergency patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
... of pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis [3], evaluations are either confined to clinical outcomes [4-6] or based on the secondary use of data from the literature rather than on prospective data ...
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Capnometry in suspected pulmonary embolism with positive D dimer in the field
... Excluding pulmonary embolism at the bedside without diagnostic imaging: man- agement of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism pre- senting tot he emergency department by using a ...
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Selecting pregnant or postpartum women with suspected pulmonary embolism for diagnostic imaging: the DiPEP diagnostic study with decision-analysis modelling
... We have used expert consensus to develop three CDRs for the purpose of selecting pregnant or postpartum women with a suspected PE for imaging. The primary rule is intended to achieve an appropriate balance between ...
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New d-dimer threshold for Japanese patients with suspected pulmonary embolism: a retrospective cohort study
... that incorporated the pulmonary embolism rule-out cri- teria (PERC) rule and an age-adjusted D -dimer cut-off rule for the diagnosis of PE (Fig. 1) [4, 5, 12, 13]. This al- gorithm is the same as that ...
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Imaging for suspected pulmonary embolism in pregnancy—what about the fetal dose? A comprehensive review of the literature
... The fetal doses in CTA reported in the literature are well below the 100-mGy threshold reported to be relevant for deterministic effects [29]. The fetal dose of 50 mGy is considered as the limit below which there is no ...
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Combination of Pulmonary Embolism Rule-out Criteria and YEARS Algorithm in a European Cohort of Patients with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
... The PE rule-out criteria (PERC) are based on eight criteria (age < 50 years, heartbeat < 100/min, SaO2 > 94%, no unilateral leg swelling, no hemoptysis, no recent trauma or surgery, no hormone use and no ...
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Diagnostic usefulness of pregnancy-associated plasma protein-A in suspected pulmonary embolism
... Pulmonary embolism is characterized by the formation of a blood clot in a vein, which will begin to travel through the circulatory system and will become lodged within the pulmonary arterial ...
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Overuse and underuse of pulmonary CT angiography in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism
... Wells’ criteria and other similar methods have been known to have low positive predictive value, making their results not valid and reliable for pregnant women (12). Since D-dimer levels are raised in normal pregnancy ...
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Clinical effects of antiplatelet drugs and statins on D-dimer levels
... Acute pulmonary embolism may be ruled out by combining non- high clinical probability and a normal D-dimer ...with suspected pulmonary embolism are affected by concomitant use of ...
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The diagnostic utility of D-dimer and other clinical variables in pregnant and post-partum patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism
... The study identified only those patients with suspected PE who underwent emergency diagnostic imaging. It is possible that some patients were discharged home from the emergency department or antenatal clinics with ...
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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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A Rare Presentation of Pulmonary Embolism: Cement Embolism after Vertebroplasty
... A 41-year-old man applied to our clinic with chest pain and shortness of breath 3 days after a percutaneous ver- tebroplasty that was performed for the fracture of the thoracic 12th (Th 12) vertebra caused by a traffic ...
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Predictive value of troponins and simplified pulmonary embolism severity index in patients with normotensive pulmonary embolism
... graphic pulmonary angiography in the present study, we did not use perfusion lung scan which could be feasible for the recurrent PE and for the follow up of those PE ...
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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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... 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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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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Management dilemmas in acute pulmonary embolism
... thrombectomy or aspirate fragments of macerated emboli fol- lowing other techniques. A recent meta-analysis observed 87% clinical success. 66 Local intra-clot thrombolytic was used in 67% of cases and was associated with ...
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Syncope as a presentation of acute pulmonary embolism
... our pulmonary clinic at a tertiary university hospital between January 2013 and May ...tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA; n = 136), high probability ventilation/perfusion (V˙/Q˙) scan (n = 41), and ...
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