[PDF] Top 20 Update on acute pulmonary embolism

... the clinical effectiveness of MDCT [28, 32, 33]. In a study including 756 consecutive patients with clinically suspected PE, all patients with or without high clinical probability and positive D-dimer underwent both ... See full document

... This meta-analysis indicates that elevated BNP levels can identify patients with acute PE at high risk of short-term death and adverse outcome events. However, while BNP measure- ments might become part of the ... See full document

... of acute PE none selected patients that were admitted in internal medicine wards of Tuscany ...for acute PE between 2012 and 2013 years from each center were retrospectively ... See full document

... an acute hepatitis after an obvious clinical improvement of myocarditis and a decrease in cardiac necrosis markers, as noted in several reports, could be suggestive of an acute CMV infection ... See full document

... the pulmonary artery vasoconstriction stimulated by neurohumoral substances (such as serotonin from platelets, thrombin from plasma, and histamine from tissue) and hypoxemia, could cause increased pulmonary ... See full document

... during acute PE, and results from increased wall stress and cardiac ischae- mia, both related to pressure ...in acute PE improves cardiac output, neverthe- less, this improvement was mainly obtained in ... See full document

... underwent pulmonary thromboembolectomy at Yonsei Cardiovascular ...open pulmonary thromboembolectomy were retrospectively re- ...had acute onset, and 7 had chronic disease, and 9 patients were ... See full document

... with acute PE, the median age was 55 and 48 % were ...obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were increased in non-survivors compared to survivors ( p ≤ ... See full document

... majority of subjects fell under the low-risk group. The fre- quency of thrombophilia peaked in the age group of 30 – 39 years. The risk of pulmonary hypertension is high in our cohort (16.6%) with a signi fi cant ... See full document

... Pulmonary embolism is a frequent emergency affecting 100–300/100,000 individuals per year in industrialized nations ...Like acute MI patients, patients with acute PE present symptoms like ... See full document

... We have demonstrated that the plasma miR-134 level was not affected by non-APE conditions. Plasma miR- 134 could distinguish APE cases from healthy controls or non-APE cases with an AUC of 0.833 or 0.756, respec- tively, ... See full document

... Methods: The records of patients with suspected PE seen between 2010 and 2013 were retrospectively reviewed. Inclusion criteria were an acute, central PE confirmed by CTPA and non-enhanced MDCT before contrast ... See full document

... in pulmonary blood flow, and the presence or absence of underlying cardiopulmonary disease ...the pulmonary arteries con- tributes to hypoxemia in ...or pulmonary disease, even a small obstruction in ... See full document

... and acute onset of pulmonary hypertension suggested the onset of “clinically massive” or high-risk pulmonary embolism [4], which is associated with a high short-term mortality [4], especially ... See full document

... Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening car- diovascular disease that has an incidence rate of 60–70 cases per 100,000 individuals and is associated with significant morbidity and ... See full document

... acute pulmonary embolism remains a significant public health threat as the third most common cardiovascular cause of death, the current guidelines consider throm- bolysis the primary therapy despite ... See full document

... Eight physicians with an interest in the manage- ment of acute and chronic pulmonary embolic disease compiled a list of 14 challenging clinical issues faced in their day-to-day practice. A PubMed search for ... See full document

... including: acute onset of fever (temperature ≥ 37,8°C), subjective feeling of fever or chills, cough with or without sputum, rhinitis, headache and sore ...an acute onset of fever (> ... See full document

... with pulmonary embolism (PE), which can both be evaluated by multi-detector row CT, is caused by increased ten- sion in the RV wall and may lead to RV dilatation and ischemia ...after acute PE is ... See full document

... then acute reductions in LV output must occur, causing systemic hypotension, RV free wall ischemia, and worsening RV contractile func- tion, dilating the RV further and decreasing further LV end-diastolic ... See full document