Chest CT assessment following thrombolysis or surgical embolectomy for acute pulmonary embolism

Vascular Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 85-89

  Kipfmueller, Florian ^a   Quiroz, Rene ^a   Goldhaber, Samuel Z ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Costello, Philip ^b   Kucher, Nils ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Echocardiography; Prognosis; Pulmonary embolism; Right ventricular dysfunction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE MASS; HEART MUSCLE REPERFUSION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE HYPERTROPHY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE VOLUME; HUMAN; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; IMAGING SYSTEM; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROBABILITY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 21244444644     PISSN: 1358863X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/1358863x05vm610oa     Document Type: Article

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