Prognostic value of blood biomarkers in patients with unprovoked acute pulmonary embolism

CONCLUSIONS: The biomarker model including hemoglobin, uric acid, and glucose has good prognostic performance comparable to the ESC risk classification while PESI or simplified PESI score was not useful in unprovoked PE.

Source: Annals of Thoracic Medicine - September 26, 2019 Category: Respiratory Medicine Authors: Joo Hee Lee Jin Won Huh Sang-Bum Hong Yeon-Mok Oh Tae Sun Shim Chae-Man Lim Sang-Do Lee Younsuck Koh Woo Sung Kim Jae Seung Lee Source Type: research