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Part of what makes the diagnosis of PE difficult is that the differential diagnosis of the clinical presentation of PE is extensive including a long list of conditions causing [[chest pain]]. Whats more, PE can accompany any of the above diagnoses. | Part of what makes the diagnosis of PE difficult is that the differential diagnosis of the clinical presentation of PE is extensive including a long list of conditions causing [[chest pain]]. Whats more, PE can accompany any of the above diagnoses. | ||
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Editor(s)-In-Chief: The APEX Trial Investigators, C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor(s)-In-Chief: Cafer Zorkun, M.D., Ph.D. [2]
Overview
Part of what makes the diagnosis of PE difficult is that the differential diagnosis of the clinical presentation of PE is extensive including a long list of conditions causing chest pain. Whats more, PE can accompany any of the above diagnoses.
Differential Diagnosis
- Acute Coronary Syndrome
- Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Anemia
- Angina pectoris
- Anxiety Disorders
- Aortic stenosis
- Arteriovenous Malformation
- Atrial fibrillation (diagnosis and management)
- Bacterial pneumonia
- Cardiogenic shock
- Cardiac Tamponade
- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Congestive Heart Failure and Pulmonary Edema
- Community acquired pneumonia
- Cor pulmonale
- Costochondritis
- Dilated Cardiomyopathy
- Distributive shock
- Emphysema
- Extrinsic Allergic Alveolitis
- Fat Embolism
- Hemorrhagic shock
- Herpes zoster
- Hyperventilation
- Mitral stenosis
- Musculoskeletal pain
- Myocardial infarction
- Myocardial ischemia
- Myocarditis
- Noncardiogenic Pulmonary Edema
- Pericarditis
- Pleuritis
- Pneumothorax
- Pulmonary Hypertension, Primary
- Pulmonary Hypertension, Secondary
- Restrictive Cardiomyopathy
- Rib fracture
- Salicylate intoxication
- Septic shock
- Sudden cardiac death
- Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
- Syncope
- Toxic shock syndrome
- Viral pneumonia