Background Physicians from many different specialties see patients suffering from acute
pulmonary embolism (PE), which has an incidence of 39–115 cases per 100 000 persons …

Results Hemodynamically unstable patients are considered to have high-risk PE, whereas
hemodynamically stable patients are considered to have non-high-risk PE. After …

Background New diagnosis, risk stratification, and treatment strategies became recently
available for patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) leading to changes in clinical …

The diagnostic management of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is complicated by its
heterogeneous clinical presentation. Current diagnostic algorithms, combining clinical …

Pulmonary embolism, despite being common, often remains elusive as a diagnosis, and
clinical suspicion needs to remain high when seeing a patient with cardiopulmonary …

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is of interest to physicians of almost all disciplines, as it is
encountered across the entire spectrum of clinical medicine. It is estimated that as many as …

As many as 40,000 patients in Germany die of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) each year.
The updated (2008) ESC guidelines emphasize the importance of adjusting management …

BACKGROUND: Registries are essential to obtain information on the whole spectrum of
patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). The aim of the Italian Pulmonary Embolism Registry …

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common, multidisciplinary disease with substantial
associated morbidity, mortality and healthcare expense. In this article we present a succinct …

An acute pulmonary embolism (aPE) is characterised by occlusion of one or more
pulmonary arteries. Physiological disturbance may be minimal, but often cardiac output …