Management and outcomes of single subsegmental pulmonary embolus: A retrospective audit at North Shore Hospital, New Zealand

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 872-876

  Mehta, D ^a   Barnett, M ^a   Zhou, L ^a   Woulfe, T ^a   Rolfe Vyson, V ^a   Rowland, V ^a   Simpson, D ^a   Merriman, Eileen ^a  

^a NORTH SHORE HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Multidetector computed tomography; Pulmonary embolism; Therapy; Venous thromboembolism

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION ULTRASOUND; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RECURRENT DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; ULTRASOUND; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM; ANGIOGRAPHY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEMORRHAGE; LIGATION; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PROCEDURES; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CLINICAL AUDIT; CONSTRICTION; FEMALE; HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; NEW ZEALAND; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY; VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM;

EID: 84912103678     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: 14455994     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/imj.12507     Document Type: Article

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