Importance Pulmonary embolism (PE) is characterized by occlusion of blood flow in a
pulmonary artery, typically due to a thrombus that travels from a vein in a lower limb. The …

determination and the implementation of preventive, diagnostic or therapeutic medical
strategies. However, the ESC Guidelines do not override in any way whatsoever the …

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition and a leading cause of morbidity
and mortality. There have been many advances in the field of PE in the last few years …

D-dimer is a soluble fibrin degradation product deriving from the plasmin-mediated
degradation of cross-linked fibrin. D-dimer can hence be considered a biomarker of …

Importance Uncontrolled studies suggest that pulmonary embolism (PE) can be safely ruled
out using the YEARS rule, a diagnostic strategy that uses varying D-dimer thresholds …

Study objective We seek to describe the medical history and clinical findings of patients
attending the emergency department (ED) with suspected coronavirus disease 2019 …

Importance The safety of the pulmonary embolism rule-out criteria (PERC), an 8-item block
of clinical criteria aimed at ruling out pulmonary embolism (PE), has not been assessed in a …

Importance In patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), overuse of diagnostic
imaging is an important point of concern. Objective To derive and validate a 4-level pretest …

The Wells score and the revised Geneva score are two most commonly used clinical rules
for excluding pulmonary embolism (PE). In this study, we aimed to assess the diagnostic …

Objectives: No prospectively derived or validated decision tools identify emergency
department (ED) patients with acute heart failure (AHF) at low risk for 30-day adverse events …