Postoperative pulmonary embolism: timing, diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 194, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 814-819

  Hope, William W ^a   Demeter, Bradley L ^a   Newcomb, William L ^a   Schmelzer, Thomas M ^a   Schiffern, Lynnette M ^a   Heniford, B Todd ^a   Sing, Ronald F ^a  

^a CAROLINAS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; IVC filter; Postoperative; Pulmonary embolism; Timing; Treatment; Vena cava filter

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG VENTILATION PERFUSION RATIO; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTICOAGULANTS; COMORBIDITY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HEPARIN; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 36048992406     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2007.08.014     Document Type: Article

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