Treatment of Intermediate-Risk Pulmonary Embolism.

The article discusses treatments for intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism. Topics covered include the case of a 33-year-old woman with a saddle pulmonary embolism with clots, parenchymal infiltrates, and cardiac interventricular septum fattening, and the treatment options and recommendations of thrombolysis in addition to heparin therapy and of parenteral herapin therapy only. Also noted are the scope and processes of the two options.