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22.05.2017 | IM - COMMENTARY
Claims-based or clinical models for predicting 90-day post-pulmonary embolism outcomes
verfasst von:
Cecilia Becattini, Giancarlo Agnelli
Erschienen in:
Internal and Emergency Medicine
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Ausgabe 5/2017
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Excerpt
The clinical presentation of pulmonary embolism is remarkably variable. The features of clinical presentation may be used to predict the short-term clinical outcome of patients with pulmonary embolism [
1,
2]. Based on clinical presentation, patients’ features and presence/absence of right ventricle overload, at least three risk categories of patients with acute pulmonary embolism at expected low, intermediate or high risk for short-term death can be identified [
3]. The final aim of risk stratification is to tailor treatment and patients’ management according to the expected risk for death [
4]. …