Prognosis of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism in Buenos Aires: a prospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The prognosis of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) in whom PE has been ruled out (RPE) is unclear. We aimed to evaluate survival and diagnosis of new cancer in suspected PE patients at follow up.

Methods

A prospective cohort study nested in a prospective Institutional Registry of Venous Thromboembolic Disease was performed between 2006 and 2011. This study was designed to evaluate all consecutive, incident cases of suspected PE in adults. The study was performed at the Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, a tertiary level hospital, in hospitalized patients and outpatients. Suspected PE cases were collected using a computerized system that alerts whenever a physician requests pulmonary angiography, angiotomography, or ventilation-perfusion scintigraphy.

SUBMITTER: Vazquez FJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4274703 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature