Title: Management of acute pulmonary embolism /
Authors: Konstantinides, Stavros
Publisher: Humana Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Pulmonary embolism; Pulmonary embolism Treatment.; Pulmonary Embolism diagnosis; Pulmonary Embolism therapy; Acute Disease therapy
Contents: Diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism -- Clinical probablility and D-dimer testing / Philip S. Wells -- Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism / James G. Ravenel and U. Joseph Schoepf -- The search for deep vein thrombosis: evaluation of the leg veins / Jan Beyer and Sebastian M. Schellong -- Risk stratification of pulmonary embolism: detection and prognostic impact of right ventricular dysfunction / Stavros V. Knostantinides -- Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary embolism / Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus.