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State of the Art: Practical Approach for Diagosis of Pulmonary Embolism

Narat Srivali1, Supawat Ratanapo1, Promporn Suksaranjit1, Wisit Cheungpasitporn1 and Daych Chongnarungsin1
  • 1 Bassett Medical Center and Columbia University, United States

Abstract

Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular related death beside myocardial infarction and stroke. Contrary to stroke and myocardial infarction, diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is considered to be much more difficult and complicated compare with the treatment once diagnosis is confirmed. Multiple diagnostic studies including clinical scoring, serum biomarker and diagnostic imaging were developed to help clinician rule in or rule out pulmonary embolism. In this article, we discussed the advantage and disadvantage of these tests and a practical way to choose the right test to diagnose pulmonary embolism.

Current Research in Medicine
Volume 3 No. 2, 2012, 141-146

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/amjsp.2012.141.146

Submitted On: 31 May 2012 Published On: 1 August 2012

How to Cite: Srivali, N., Ratanapo, S., Suksaranjit, P., Cheungpasitporn, W. & Chongnarungsin, D. (2012). State of the Art: Practical Approach for Diagosis of Pulmonary Embolism. Current Research in Medicine, 3(2), 141-146. https://doi.org/10.3844/amjsp.2012.141.146

Open AccessCopyright: © 2012 Narat Srivali, Supawat Ratanapo, Promporn Suksaranjit, Wisit Cheungpasitporn and Daych Chongnarungsin. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Pulmonary embolism
  • D-dimer
  • myocardial infarctio
  • pulmonary embolism