Paul D. Stein
by Paul D. Stein
Pulmonry Embolism supplies the latest information on epidemiology, methods of diagnosis, preferred diagnostic pathways, new medications, and new recommendations for prophylaxis and treatment of pulmonary embolism and its immediate cause, deep vein thrombosis.
Pulmonary Embolism includes:
- new clinical observations
- accuracy of multidetector computed tomography for the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism
- recommendations for the use of various imaging tests according to the characteristics of the patient
Contents
Prevalence, risks, and prognosis of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis
- Pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis at autopsy
- Incidence of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis in hospitalized patients
- Case fatality rate and population mortality rate from pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis
- Prognosis in acute pulmonary embolism based on right ventricular enlargement, prognostic models, and biochemical markers
- Changing risks of untreated deep venous thrombosis and acute pulmonary embolism
- Resolution of pulmonary embolism
- Upper extremity deep venous thrombosis
- Thromboembolic disease involving the superior vena cava and brachiocephalic veins
- Venous thromboembolic disease in the four seasons
- Regional differences in the United States of rates of diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and deep venous thrombosis and mortality from pulmonary embolism
...and chapters 11-27
Diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis
- Deep venous thrombosis of the lower extremities: clinical evaluation
- Clinical model for assessment of deep venous thrombosis
- Clinical probability score plus single negative ultrasound for exclusion of deep venous thrombosis
- D-dimer for the exclusion of acute deep venous thrombosis
- D-dimer combined with clinical probability assessment for exclusion of acute deep venous thrombosis
- D-dimer and single negative compression ultrasound for exclusion of deep venous thrombosis
- Contrast venography
- Compression ultrasound for the diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis
- Impedance plethysmography and fibrinogen uptake tests for diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis
- Computed tomography for diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis
- Magnetic resonance angiography for diagnosis of deep venous thrombosis
- P-selectin and microparticles to predict deep venous thrombosis
Diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism
- Clinical characteristics of patients with no prior cardiopulmonary disease
- Relation of right-sided pressures to clinical characteristics of patients with no prior cardiopulmonary disease
- The history and physical examination in all patients irrespective of prior cardiopulmonary disease
- Clinical characteristics of patients with acute pulmonary embolism stratified according to their presenting syndromes
- Clinical assessment in the critically ill
- The electrocardiogram
- The plain chest radiograph
- Arterial blood gases and the alveolar–arterial oxygen difference in acute pulmonary embolism
- Fever in acute pulmonary embolism
- Leukocytosis in acute pulmonary embolism
- Alveolar dead-space in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
...and chapters 50-84
Prevention and treatment of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
- New and old anticoagulants
- Prevention of deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism
- Treatment of deep venous thrombosis and acute pulmonary embolism
- Withholding treatment of patients with acute pulmonary embolism who have a high risk of bleeding provided and negative serial noninvasive leg tests
- Thrombolytic therapy in acute pulmonary embolism
- Thrombolytic therapy for deep venous thrombosis
- Inferior vena cava filters: trends in use, complications, indications, and use of retrievable filters
- Catheter-tip embolectomy in the management of acute massive pulmonary embolism
- Pulmonary embolectomy
- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension and pulmonary thromboendarterectomy
Index
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