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

Authors

  • Farbod Hatami Birjand CardioVascular Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
  • Niloufar Valizadeh Birjand CardioVascular Diseases Research Center, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
Abstract:

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.

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volume 3  issue 3

pages  67- 69

publication date 2015-10

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