Echocardiographic Predictors of Long-Term Mortality in Patients Presenting With Acute Pulmonary Embolism

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with a high mortality; whether echocardiographic evaluation at presentation predicts long-term adverse outcomes is of importance. We sought to determine if a composite of routinely obtained echocardiographic parameters could determine long-term adverse events in PE patients. Right ventricular (RV) size and function and right atrial (RA) size were retrospectively evaluated in 233 consecutive PE patients with an inpatient echocardiogram, and compared with 70 healthy controls; mortality at 3 years was confirmed.

Source: The American Journal of Cardiology - April 24, 2019 Category: Cardiology Authors: Andrew D Terluk, Siddharth J Trivedi, Leonard Kritharides, Vincent Chow, Ee-May Chia, Karen Byth, Christian J Mussap, Austin C.C. Ng, Liza Thomas Source Type: research