Does the addition of echocardiographic assessment of RV function to clinical parameters improve the prediction of mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?
Adding echocardiographic assessment of RV function to standard clinical parameters improves mortality prediction in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
The addition of echocardiographic assessment of RV function to clinical parameters improved the prediction of outcomes for patients with acute PE. Larger studies are needed to validate these findings.
Dahhan et al. (Fri,) studied this question.