Outcome of Patients With Cancer-Associated Pulmonary Embolism: Results From the Regional Pulmonary Embolism Registry.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Newly or already diagnosed cancer might significantly influence the clinical presentation, outcome, and therapy of acute pulmonary embolism (PE).

Methods

Out of 1745 patients with acute PE, 66 patients were diagnosed with cancer during an initial hospitalization due to acute PE (where PE was the first clinical manifestation of cancer), 165 patients had known cancer treated in the last 6 months, and 1514 patients had acute PE without known or suspected cancer. The primary end-point of the present study was all-cause hospital death. The secondary end-points were the proportion of patients treated with thrombolysis and who had severe disease, and the ocurrence of major or clinically relevant nonmajor bleeding.

Results

Patients with PE as the first presentation

SUBMITTER: Salinger S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12022772 | biostudies-literature | 2025 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature