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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
Throughout history, many renowned researchers and health care professionals have contributed to the understanding, definition, and treatment of pulmonary embolism. Though the first documented case of pulmonary embolism occurred in 1837, historical record of thrombotic disease dates as far back as the 7th century BCE.<ref name="pmid19268798">{{cite journal| author=Wood KE| title=A history of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis. | journal=Crit Care Clin | year= 2009 | volume= 25 | issue= 1 | pages= 115-31, viii | pmid=19268798 | doi=10.1016/j.ccc.2008.12.014 | pmc= | url=http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/elink.fcgi?dbfrom=pubmed&tool=sumsearch.org/cite&retmode=ref&cmd=prlinks&id=19268798 }} </ref | |||
The first written reference to thrombotic disease is likely attributed to the ancient Indian medical texts of [[ayurveda]] physician and surgeon, [[Sushruta]] (circa 600–1000 BCE), which describes a patient who had a | |||
==Historical Perspective:Time-line of Changes== | ==Historical Perspective:Time-line of Changes== | ||
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| [[Ayurveda]] physician and surgeon, [[Sushruta]] makes the first written reference to thrombotic disease in a patient. He notes the patient's condition as having had a "‘‘swollen and painful leg which was difficult to treat>’’. | |||
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| 1837 | | 1837 | ||
| | | French pathologist [[Jean Cruveilhier]]documents the first case report on pulmonary embolism. | ||
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| 1922 | | 1922 | ||
| | | Researchers publish a description of pulmonary embolism characters visible within a chest x-ray. | ||
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| | | Prior to 1930 | ||
| | | The practicing consensus viewed a pulmonary embolism as universally fatal, with surgery the only treatment (despite an operative mortality of 100%). | ||
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| 1935 | | 1935 | ||
| [[ | | Researchers begin to utilize [[heparin]] in clinical trials aimed at treating pulmonary embolisms. | ||
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| 1940 | | 1940 | ||
| Hampton and Castleman | | Researchers, Hampton and Castleman, describe the radiographic appearance of pulmonary embolism and pulmonary infarct. These observations are later dubbed [[Hampton's hump]]. | ||
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| 1960 | | 1960 | ||
| Barritt et al demonstrate that anticoagulant therapy reduces death and recurrent venous thromboembolism in patients with | | Barritt et al demonstrate that anticoagulant therapy reduces death and recurrent venous thromboembolism in patients with pulmonary embolism.<ref name="pmid13797091">{{cite journal |author=BARRITT DW, JORDAN SC |title=Anticoagulant drugs in the treatment of pulmonary embolism. A controlled trial |journal=Lancet |volume=1 |issue=7138 |pages=1309–12 |year=1960 |month=June |pmid=13797091 |doi= |url= |accessdate=2012-01-09}}</ref> | ||
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| 1977 | | 1977 | ||
| Physician Eugene Robin published a landmark article stating the use of [[Pulmonary angiography]] as an approach to diagnosing | | Physician Eugene Robin published a landmark article stating the use of [[Pulmonary angiography]] as an approach to diagnosing pulmonary embolism.<ref name="pmid931212">{{cite journal| author=Robin ED| title=Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of pulmonary embolism: the emperor may have no clothes. | journal=Ann Intern Med | year= 1977 | volume= 87 | issue= 6 | pages= 775-81 |pmid=931212 | doi= | pmc= | url= }} </ref> | ||
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| 1995 | | 1995 | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Ujjwal Rastogi, MBBS [2]
Overview
Throughout history, many renowned researchers and health care professionals have contributed to the understanding, definition, and treatment of pulmonary embolism. Though the first documented case of pulmonary embolism occurred in 1837, historical record of thrombotic disease dates as far back as the 7th century BCE.Closing </ref> missing for <ref> tag
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| 1977
| Physician Eugene Robin published a landmark article stating the use of Pulmonary angiography as an approach to diagnosing pulmonary embolism.[1]
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| 1995
| Goodman et al. compared Helical CT angiography (CTA) with pulmonary angiography in patients with unresolved suspicion for pulmonary thromboembolism.[2]
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| 2005
| CT replaced scintigraphy as the noninvasive test of choice for suspected pulmonary thromboembolism[3].
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References
- ↑ Robin ED (1977). "Overdiagnosis and overtreatment of pulmonary embolism: the emperor may have no clothes". Ann Intern Med. 87 (6): 775–81. PMID 931212.
- ↑ Goodman LR, Curtin JJ, Mewissen MW, Foley WD, Lipchik RJ, Crain MR; et al. (1995). "Detection of pulmonary embolism in patients with unresolved clinical and scintigraphic diagnosis: helical CT versus angiography". AJR Am J Roentgenol. 164 (6): 1369–74. PMID 7754875.
- ↑ Goldhaber SZ (2005). "Multislice computed tomography for pulmonary embolism--a technological marvel". N Engl J Med. 352 (17): 1812–4. doi:10.1056/NEJMe058041. PMID 15858192.