Differential clinical manifestations and clinical outcome of cancer-related pulmonary embolism.

Conclusions: Although PE in cancer patients were seem to be less aggressive initially, compared to those without cancer, they had significantly poor prognosis. Given a high rate of recurrent VTE and relatively similar risk of anticoagulation associated bleeding events in cancer patients, more active treatment of PE is warranted in cancer patients.
PMID: 31394894 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: The Korean Journal of Internal Medicine - August 8, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Authors: Kim MS, Chang H, Lee SY, Shin SH, Park H, Chang SA, Park TK, Kim DK, Kim EK Tags: Korean J Intern Med Source Type: research