Atrial fibrillation in acute pulmonary embolism: Prognostic considerations

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 308-312

  Barra, Sérgio Nuno Craveiro ^a   Paiva, Luís Vilardouro ^a   Providência, Rui ^a,b   Fernandes, Andreia ^a   Marques, António Leitão ^a  

^a CENTRO HOSPITALAR E UNIVERSITÁRIO DE COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE TENSION; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; MIDDLE AGED; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; ACUTE DISEASE; COMPLICATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MORTALITY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATRIAL FIBRILLATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 84896099968     PISSN: 14720205     EISSN: 14720213     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emermed-2012-202089     Document Type: Article

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