Severity of acute pulmonary embolism: Evaluation of a new spiral CT angiographic score in correlation with echocardiographic data

European Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 29-35

  Mastora, Ioana ^a,b   Remy Jardin, Martine ^a,b   Masson, Pascal ^a,b   Galland, Eric ^c   Delannoy, Valérie ^d   Bauchart, Jean Jacques ^c   Remy, Jacques ^a,b  

^a LILLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b Equipe d'Accueil no 2682   (France)

^c Cardiology Hospital   (France)

^d UNIV LILLE   (France)

Author keywords

CT angiography; Pulmonary arteries; Pulmonary emobolism; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COR PULMONALE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; PULMONARY HYPERTENSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; RADIOGRAPHY; RISK FACTOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PULMONARY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; PULMONARY HEART DISEASE; RISK FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 0038576102     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-002-1515-y     Document Type: Article

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