Silent PE

Should we look for silent pulmonary embolism in patients with deep venous thrombosis? Anybody else find themselves scanning your DVT patients for PE more frequently after the publishing of all this literature touting the high percentage of silent PEs with concomitant DVTs? Some of these numbers are crazy. 32%-66% in some of these studies. I doubt the clinical relevance. Most of these pt's are asymptomatic from the PE and are on proper anti-coagulation for the DVT and would probably be fine... Silent PE
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