CT pulmonary angiography for pulmonary embolism: role beyond diagnosis?
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[Pulmonary CT angiography in pulmonary embolism: beyond diagnosis].
c Right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) is the most common cause of short-term mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).1 Shock and hemodynamic instability, defined as systolic blood pressure below 90mmHg or a fall of more than 40mmHg, is a clinical marker of high risk and identifies patients who may benefit from early thrombolysis.2 However, in PE patients without hemodynamic com...
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Zhonghua Sun1* and Jing Lei2 1Department of Medical Radiation Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, 6845, Australia 2Department of Medical Imaging, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Yunnan, 650032, China *Author for correspondence: Tel: +61892667509 Fax: +61892662377 E-mail: [email protected] Submitted: August 18, 2017 Accepted: September 13, 2017 Publi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Clinical Practice
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1368-5031
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2011.02660.x