α2-Antiplasmin plays a significant role in acute pulmonary embolism

α2 Antiplasmin and microvascular thrombosis in ischemic stroke.

Role of paraclinical assessment in management of massive pulmonary embolism: A case report

Despite all the diagnosis and treatment processes of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), it is still associated with a high rate of mortality. We describe a massive PTE case of a 73-year-old woman with unusual clinical manifestations.

Acute Pulmonary Embolism

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Prognostic role of brain natriuretic peptide in acute pulmonary embolism.

BACKGROUND Rapid, noninvasive, and accurate prognostic assessment with an inexpensive cardiac biomarker is an appealing approach for patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). METHODS AND RESULTS We measured at the time of admission the plasma level of plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) to determine its utility in prognosticating the clinical course of 73 consecutive patients with acute...

Acute pulmonary embolism.

Copyright © 2010 Massachusetts Medical Society. The clinical presentation of acute pulmonary embolism ranges from shock or sustained hypotension to mild dyspnea. Pulmonary embolism may even be asymptomatic and diagnosed by imaging procedures performed for other purposes. Depending on the clinical presentation, the case fatality rate for acute pulmonary embolism ranges from about 60% to less tha...