Dual energy CT pulmonary blood volume assessment in acute pulmonary embolism - Correlation with D-dimer level, right heart strain and clinical outcome

European Radiology

Volumn 21, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1914-1921

  Bauer, Ralf W ^a   Frellesen, Claudia ^a   Renker, Matthias ^a,b   Schell, Boris ^a   Lehnert, Thomas ^a   Ackermann, Hanns ^a   Schoepf, U Joseph ^b   Jacobi, Volkmar ^a   Vogl, Thomas J ^a   Kerl, J Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood volume assessment; Clinical outcome; Dual energy CT; Pulmonary embolism; Right heart strain

Indexed keywords

D DIMER; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR PARAMETERS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG BLOOD VOLUME; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEART STRAIN; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FUNCTION, LEFT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; CONE-BEAM COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; HEART FUNCTION TESTS; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY CIRCULATION; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; VENTRICULAR FUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 80052721781     PISSN: 09387994     EISSN: 14321084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00330-011-2135-1     Document Type: Article

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