Predictors of clinical outcome in acute pulmonary embolism. Correlation of CT pulmonary angiography with clinical, echocardiography and laboratory findings

Academic Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 47-53

  Ceylan, Naim ^a   Tasbakan, Sezai ^a   Bayraktaroglu, Selen ^a   Cok, Gursel ^a   Simsek, Tarik ^a   Duman, Soner ^a   Savaş, Recep ^a  

^a EGE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; CT pulmonary angiography; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ACUTE LUNG EMBOLISM; ADULT; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBRYO; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY OCCLUSION; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78649904772     PISSN: 10766332     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2010.08.024     Document Type: Article

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