Risk stratification and clinical outcomes in patients with acute pulmonary embolism

Clinical Biochemistry

Volumn 44, Issue 13, 2011, Pages 1110-1115

  Huang, Chi Ming ^a   Lin, Yen Chung ^c   Lin, Yenn Jiang ^a,b   Chang, Shih Lin ^a,b   Lo, Li Wei ^a,b   Hu, Yu Feng ^a,b   Chiang, Chern En ^a,b   Wang, Kang Ling ^a,b   Chen, Shih Ann ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c TAIPEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Hemodynamic instability; Mortality; Prognosis; Pulmonary embolism; Risk stratification

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; CREATINE KINASE MB; D DIMER; TROPONIN I;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY TEMPERATURE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CHRONIC LUNG DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT BUNDLE BRANCH BLOCK; HEMODYNAMIC INSTABILITY; HEMODYNAMICS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; NEOPLASM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEPSIS; SHOCK; SINUS RHYTHM; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; SYNCOPE; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; T WAVE INVERSION; THORAX PAIN; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HUMANS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TACHYCARDIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051687088     PISSN: 00099120     EISSN: 18732933     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2011.06.077     Document Type: Article

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