TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy A1 - Jamieson, Stuart W. A1 - Madani, Michael M. A2 - Cohn, Lawrence H. A2 - Adams, David H. Y1 - 2017 N1 - T2 - Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e AB - Pulmonary embolism (PE) results in at least 630,000 symptomatic episodes in the United States yearly, making it about half as common as acute myocardial infarction, and three times as common as cerebrovascular accidents.1 Acute PE is the third most common cause of death (after heart disease and cancer). Estimates of PE are probably low because approximately 75% of autopsy-proved PE are not detected clinically2 and in 70 to 80% of the patients in whom the primary cause of death was PE, premortem diagnosis was completely unsuspected.3,4 Of all hospitalized patients who develop PE, 12 to 21% die in the hospital, and another 24 to 39% die within 12 months.5-7 Thus, approximately 36 to 60% of patients who survive the initial episode live beyond 12 months, and may present later in life with a wide variety of symptoms. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144167008 ER -