Article Text
PostScript
Correspondence
Risk stratification in pulmonary embolism: an algorithmic tool approach
Statistics from Altmetric.com
It is with much interest we read the article by Jiménez et al1 and the accompanying editorial2 Focusing investigation on patients with symptomatic pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) but who are normotensive at presentation, it reminds us that work still needs to be undertaken for the 95% of patients (including the 15% with submassive disease) who remain haemodynamically stable and excluded from thrombolysis, if current guidelines are followed.3 Anecdotally, with the increased use of CT pulmonary angiography, clinicians more readily visualise thrombus burden and, despite the lack of scientific …
Linked Articles
- PostScript
- PostScript