Background of fatal pulmonary embolism: an analysis of all diagnosed fatal pulmonary embolism in 2015-2018 from Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa.

ABSTRACT: Pulmonary embolism (PE) mortality has decreased in the last decades but acute PE is still associated with significant fatality. Specific information on fatal PE patients could guide how to efficiently improve PE management but to date this information has been scarce. All the individuals with PE defined as an immediate or underlying cause of death were collected from the death certificate archive of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa, Finland, including approximately 1.7 million inhabitants (2015-2018). Crude and age-adjusted mortality rates and proportional mortality were calculated, and the distribution of comorbidities at death and death location (in-hospital, palliative care, or out-of-hospital) was analyzed. In total, 451 individuals with fatal PE were identified (238 femal

SUBMITTER: Antero SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8904330 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature