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Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism |
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| Published in | La presse médicale. 2015, vol. 44, no. 12 Pt 2, p. e385-e391 | |
| Abstract | Pulmonary embolism is the third cause of mortality by cardiovascular disease after coronary artery disease and stroke, and its incidence is around 1/1000 per year. During the last two decades, many different non-invasive diagnostic tests have been developed and validated. For hemodynamically stable outpatients, the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism mainly rests on the sequential use of clinical assessment, D-dimer measurement and multidetector CT. In patients with a contraindication to CT, lower limb venous ultrasonography and ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy remain valid options. Massive pulmonary embolism is a distinct clinical entity with a specific diagnostic approach. In unstable patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, echocardiography should be the initial test. | |
| Keywords | Echocardiography/methods — Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products/analysis — Humans — Multidetector Computed Tomography/methods — Protein Multimerization — Pulmonary Embolism/diagnosis/radionuclide imaging/ultrasonography — Venous Thrombosis/ultrasonography — Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio | |
| Identifiers | PMID: 26585743 | |
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| Research group | La maladie thromboembolique veineuse (808) | |
| Citation (ISO format) | RIGHINI, Marc Philip, ROBERT-EBADI, Helia, LE GAL, Grégoire. Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. In: La presse médicale, 2015, vol. 44, n° 12 Pt 2, p. e385-e391. https://archive-ouverte.unige.ch/unige:87939 |
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