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[Outcome of patients with clinically acute massive pulmonary embolism].
- Source :
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Pneumonologia i alergologia polska [Pneumonol Alergol Pol] 1994; Vol. 62 (3-4), pp. 132-7. - Publication Year :
- 1994
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Abstract
- Acute massive pulmonary embolism (AMPE) is an event that places the recipient at an unusually high risk of sudden death. Among 183 patients with thromboembolic disease, AMPE has been diagnosed clinically in 58 cases (32%). Diagnostic criteria: cardiac arrest (24 cases--41%), shock (12--21%) acute cor pulmonale (ACP 15--26%) and ACP with shock (7 cases--12%). There were 33 women and 25 men aged 22-88 years in this group. In 25 patients heparin (H), in 7 streptokinase (S), in 1 tPA, in 7 S after H have been used, 26 patients (45%) survived, 32 (55%) died: there were 20 sudden deaths. Advanced underlying cardiopulmonary diseases or/and recurrent pulmonary embolism seem to be the most important predictors of fatal outcome of AMPE.
- Subjects :
- Acute Disease
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Heparin therapeutic use
Humans
Male
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Embolism diagnosis
Pulmonary Embolism mortality
Streptokinase therapeutic use
Survival Rate
Tissue Plasminogen Activator therapeutic use
Treatment Outcome
Pulmonary Embolism drug therapy
Thrombolytic Therapy
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- Polish
- ISSN :
- 0867-7077
- Volume :
- 62
- Issue :
- 3-4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Pneumonologia i alergologia polska
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 8061637