Predictors of cancer in patients with acute pulmonary embolism

Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) can occur as a manifestation of an underlying cancer and be of paraneoplastic aetiology. A previously unknown cancer is sometimes diagnosed after the acute PE diagnosis. The identification of a group of patients with elevated probability of having an occult cancer underlying PE was never performed. We aimed to determine predictors of occult cancer in acute PE. Our hypothesis was that the D-dimer levels would be a predictor of cancer.

Source: Thrombosis Research - August 10, 2023 Category: Hematology Authors: Gon çalo Felix, Ester Ferreira, Ana Ribeiro, Inês Guerreiro, Emanuel Araújo, Sara Ferreira, Sara Coelho, Helena Magalhães, Jorge Almeida, Patrícia Lourenço Source Type: research