Evaluation of patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism: best practice advice from the Clinical Guidelines Committee of the American College of Physicians

AS Raja, JO Greenberg, A Qaseem… - Annals of internal …, 2015 - acpjournals.org
Pulmonary embolism (PE) can be a severe disease and is difficult to diagnose, given its
nonspecific signs and symptoms. Because of this, testing patients with suspected acute PE has …

Strategy for diagnosis of patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism

PD Stein, RD Hull, HA Saltzman, G Pineo - Chest, 1993 - Elsevier
… in 347 patients. The strategy that we propose, therefore, would have reduced the need
for pulmonary angiography in patients with suspected acute PE to 33 percent (293 of 887). …

[HTML][HTML] Diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism

M Righini, H Robert‐Ebadi, G Le Gal - Journal of Thrombosis and …, 2017 - Elsevier
… on the management of suspected acute PE, it is suggested that the clinical relevance of
small peripheral PE and the need to give anticoagulant treatment in such patients is a matter of …

[HTML][HTML] D‐Dimer test in cancer patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism

M DI NISIO, M Sohne, PW Kamphuisen… - Journal of Thrombosis …, 2005 - Elsevier
… The initial group consisted of an unselected sample of inpatients and outpatients referred
to the thrombosis unit for clinically suspected acute PE. Only data from patients whose initial …

The clinical course of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism

EJR van Beek, PMM Kuijer, HR Büller… - Archives of internal …, 1997 - jamanetwork.com
… : Consecutive patients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism underwent lung … The
total mortality after 6 months in patients with proved or excluded pulmonary embolism was 17…

[HTML][HTML] Diagnostic management of clinically suspected acute pulmonary embolism

MV Huisman, FA Klok - Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis, 2009 - Elsevier
… stable patients with clinically suspected acute pulmonary embolism (PE) consists of … patients
who have acute PE and require anticoagulant treatment, and the overall majority of patients

Outcomes after withholding anticoagulation from patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative computed tomographic findings: a cohort study

SJ Swensen, PF Sheedy II, JH Ryu, DD Pickett… - Mayo Clinic …, 2002 - Elsevier
… show that patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism and negative CT results have
an excellent outcome without anticoagulation. Symptomatic venous thromboembolism was …

Management of Suspected Acute Pulmonary Embolism in the Era of CT Angiography: A Statement from the Fleischner Society1

M Remy-Jardin, M Pistolesi, LR Goodman, WB Gefter… - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
patients and guide certain therapeutic decisions. Second, the clinical presentation of patients
suspected of having acute … management of suspected acute pulmonary embolism. Thorax …

The evaluation of suspected pulmonary embolism

PF Fedullo, VF Tapson - New England Journal of Medicine, 2003 - Mass Medical Soc
… Society of Cardiology 53 recommend approaches to suspected acute pulmonary embolism
that use the assessment of the clinical probability of embolism in decision making and are in …

Use of clinical prediction rules and D-dimer tests in the diagnostic management of pregnant patients with suspected acute pulmonary embolism

LM Van der Pol, ATA Mairuhu, C Tromeur, F Couturaud… - Blood reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
… to summarize current evidence on the safety and efficacy of clinical decision rules and
biomarkers used in the diagnostic management of suspected acute PE in pregnant patients. …