Where should patients with acute pulmonary embolism be treated?
Where should patients with acute pulmonary embolism be treated?
Kardiol Pol. 2020 Jan 15;:
Authors: Pruszczyk P, Konstantinides S
Abstract
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the major causes of in-hospital mortality, and the short term PE prognosis is strongly related to its haemodynamic consequences. Therefore, a stepwise risk stratification approach has been proposed using a combination of clinical data, imaging, and biochemical markers, to define risk an early adverse outcome. Patients should be managed according to PE severity: some of them require urgent primary reperfusion, for most patients anticoagulation alone is sufficient, and selected low risk patients are potential candidates for early discharge and continuation of treatment on an outpatient basis. We present current risk-adapted approach to management strategies in acute pulmonary embolism.
PMID: 31939451 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Polish Heart Journal - Category: Cardiology Authors: Pruszczyk P, Konstantinides S Tags: Kardiol Pol Source Type: research