Importance of risk factors for the evaluation of patients with a suspected pulmonary embolism
| Autor: | Stefan O. Schoenberg, Thomas Henzler, Joachim Gruettner, Paul Apfaltrer, Thomas Walter, Sonja Sudarski, Merle Bolte, Tim Viergutz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Cancer Research
medicine.medical_specialty Pathology business.industry Deep vein Cancer Context (language use) Articles General Medicine Emergency department medicine.disease Thrombophilia Thrombosis Pulmonary embolism medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology and Microbiology (miscellaneous) Internal medicine medicine Family history business |
| Zdroj: | Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine. 9:2281-2284 |
| ISSN: | 1792-1015 1792-0981 |
| DOI: | 10.3892/etm.2015.2395 |
| Popis: | The reliable exclusion of a pulmonary embolism (PE) in hemodynamically stable patients remains a challenge. The European Society of Cardiology guidelines for PE diagnosis published in 2008 and updated in 2014 recommend a low-threshold computed tomography (CT) indication for patients with a high probability of pulmonary embolism or those with elevated levels of D-dimers. Certain elements of the recommendations are controversial, while others, including the evaluation of the risk factors for PE, are considered only in individual cases. In the present study, various risk factors, including obesity, smoking, contraceptive use, immobility level, history of malignant disease and thrombophilia and the factors of familial predisposition, deep vein thrombosis (DVT)/PE-history, long-distance flying |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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