Short-term mortality in acute pulmonary embolism: Clot burden and signs of right heart dysfunction at CT pulmonary angiography

Radiology

Volumn 265, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 283-293

  Furlan, Alessandro ^a   Aghayev, Ayaz ^a   Chang, Chung Chou H ^b,c   Patil, Amol ^a   Jeon, Kyung Nyeo ^a,d   Park, Bumwoo ^a   Fetzer, David T ^a   Saul, Melissa ^b   Roberts, Mark S ^b,c   Bae, Kyongtae T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH GRADUATE SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d Gyeongsang National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE SIZE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE DIAMETER; HEART VENTRICLE SIZE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MASTORA SCORE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QANADLI SCORE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFERENCE VALUE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RIGHT HEART DYSFUNCTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SURVIVAL TIME; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VOLUMETRY;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFTWARE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRIIODOBENZOIC ACIDS; VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION, RIGHT;

EID: 84866607772     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12110802     Document Type: Article

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