Association between serum calcium and prognosis in patients with acute pulmonary embolism and the optimization of pulmonary embolism severity index.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Calcium is an important coagulation factor and hypocalcemia is related to progression and poor prognosis of many cardiopulmonary diseases. However, influence of hypocalcemia on pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) prognosis has never been reported. This study aimed to explore its prognostic value and optimize the pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI), the widely used prognosis assessment model, based on the value.

Methods

PTE patients' variables in PESI and other related clinical characteristics including admission serum calcium were collected. Associations between these variables and PTE mortality were assessed by logistic regression and cox analysis. Variables significantly associated with 30-day PTE mortality were included to develop a new prognosis prediction

SUBMITTER: Wang X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7659049 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature