We have updated recommendations on 12 controversial topics that were published in the
2013 National Consensus on the diagnosis, risk stratification and treatment of patients with …

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a public health problem of the first order. Although less
common than other vascular diseases, such as myocardial infarction or cerebrovascular …

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the most serious manifestation of venous thromboembolic
disease. Until the 1980s there had been no substantial changes in either the diagnosis or …

Bounameaux H (Division of Angiology and Hemostasis, Department of Internal Medicine,
University Hospitals of Geneva and Faculty of Medicine, Geneva, Switzerland) …

Pulmonary embolism can be life threatening and difficult to diagnose as signs and
symptoms are not specific. European guidelines recommend stratification of pulmonary …

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 …

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a serious and costly disease for patients and healthcare
systems. Guidelines emphasise the importance of differentiating between patients who are …

Background: Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially fatal disorder with highly varying
mortality rates. To provide information that is more precise for prospective intervention …

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

The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) is frequently considered in patients presenting to
the emergency department or when hospitalized. Although early treatment is highly effective …