RT Book, Section
A1 Jamieson, Stuart W.
A1 Madani, Michael M.
A2 Cohn, Lawrence H.
A2 Adams, David H.
SR Print(0)
ID 1144167008
T1 Pulmonary Embolism and Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy
T2 Cardiac Surgery in the Adult, 5e
YR 2017
FD 2017
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071844871
LK accesscardiology.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1144167008
RD 2024/04/16
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.