Risk profile and clinical outcome of symptomatic subsegmental acute pulmonary embolism

Blood

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1144-1149

  Den Exter, Paul L ^a   Van Es, Josien ^b   Klok, Frederikus A ^a   Kroft, Lucia J ^a   Kruip, Marieke J H A ^c   Kamphuisen, Pieter Willem ^d   Büller, Harry R ^b   Huisman, Menno V ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; ESTROGEN THERAPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENDER; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR SURGERY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENCE RISK; RECURRENT DISEASE; RISK FACTOR; SUBSEGMENTAL PULMONARY EMBOLISM; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; CLASSIFICATION; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME;

ANTICOAGULANTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECURRENCE; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84887184250     PISSN: 00064971     EISSN: 15280020     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1182/blood-2013-04-497545     Document Type: Article

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