Clinical characteristics and outcomes of patients with clinically unsuspected pulmonary embolism versus patients with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism

Respiration

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 492-500

  Shteinberg, Michal ^a,b   Segal Trabelsy, Miriam ^b   Adir, Yochai ^a,b   Laor, Arie ^a,b   Vardi, Moshe ^b,c   Bitterman, Haim ^a,b  

^a CARMEL MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c HARVARD CLINICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Malignancy; Prognosis; Suspected pulmonary embolism; Unsuspected pulmonary embolism

Indexed keywords

ANTIVITAMIN K; HEPARIN; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASM; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUSPECTED LUNG EMBOLISM; TACHYPNEA; THORAX PAIN; UNSUSPECTED LUNG EMBOLISM; VENA CAVA FILTER;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84869497019     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: 14230356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000342324     Document Type: Article

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