Usefulness of computed tomographic pulmonary angiography in the risk stratification of acute pulmonary thromboembolism: Comparison with cardiac biomarkers

Circulation Journal

Volumn 75, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 428-436

  Seon, Hyun Ju ^a   Kim, Kye Hun ^a   Lee, Woo Seok ^a   Choi, Song ^a   Yoon, Hyun Ju ^a   Ahn, Youngkeun ^a   Kim, Yun Hyeon ^a   Jeong, Myung Ho ^a   Cho, Jeong Gwan ^a   Park, Jong Chun ^a   Kang, Jung Chaee ^a  

^a Chonnam National University Medical School   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Biomarker; Computed tomography; Pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; C-REACTIVE PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; SINGLE-BLIND METHOD; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; TROPONIN I; TROPONIN T; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 79251564083     PISSN: 13469843     EISSN: 13474820     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/circj.CJ-10-0361     Document Type: Article

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