30-Day clinical events after diagnosis and treatment for 591 normotensive patients with acute symptomatic PE
| Events | Patients, n (%) |
| Complicated course* | 59 (10.0%) |
| All-cause death | 59 (10.0%) |
| PE-related death | 37 (6.3%) |
| Haemodynamic collapse† | 18 (3.0%) |
| Major bleeding | 26 (4.4%) |
| Recurrent PE | 13 (2.2%) |
↵* Defined as pulmonary embolism (PE)-related death, or haemodynamic collapse, or recurrent PE.
↵† Defined as the use of at least one of the following: infusion of a catecholamine because of persistent arterial hypotension or shock; endotracheal intubation; cardiopulmonary resuscitation; and rescue thrombolysis, emergency surgical embolectomy or thrombus fragmentation by catheter.