Pulmonary embolism diagnostic approach
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Pulmonary Embolism Microchapters |
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Pulmonary Embolism Assessment of Probability of Subsequent VTE and Risk Scores |
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Treatment |
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Pulmonary embolism diagnostic approach On the Web |
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Directions to Hospitals Treating Pulmonary embolism diagnostic approach |
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Risk calculators and risk factors for Pulmonary embolism diagnostic approach |
Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1] Associate Editors-in-Chief: Ujjwal Rastogi, MBBS [2]
Overview
Signs and symptoms of pulmonary embolism are nonspecific; therefore, patients presenting with:
- unexplained dyspnea
- tachypnea
- chest pain
- Risk factors for pulmonary embolism
—should undergo diagnostic tests until the diagnosis is confirmed or eliminated or an alternative diagnosis is made.
CT equipped hospitals
| Determine chances of PE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Low chances of PE | High chances of PE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| D-dimer | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| <500 ng/ml | >500 ng/ml | CT Pulmonary angiography | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PE excluded | Negative | Positive | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| PE excluded | PE confirmed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||