Postpulmonary Embolism Follow-Up and Epidemiology of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension

The follow-up of patients with acute pulmonary embolism is an essential component their comprehensive care. This manuscript will discuss the critical components involved in outpatient embolism, including development post hospitalization clinics, assessment functional capacity and residual right ventricular function, anticoagulation, recurrence risk venous thromboembolism, retrieval inferior vena cava filters. In addition to these listed topics, epidemiology chronic thromboembolic hypertension be discussed, spectrum postpulmonary syndrome (PPES), factors for hypertension, incidence after embolism.