Why the study?
Does the presence of free-floating right heart thromboemboli increase in-hospital mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?
Population
1,275 patients with acute pulmonary embolism enrolled in the Italian Pulmonary Embolism Registry who had…
Comparison
Presence of free-floating right heart… vs Absence of right heart thromboemboli
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
in-hospital
Authors
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Does not support incorporating right heart thromboemboli into acute PE mortality risk models; leaves open its role in prospective or subgroup analyses.
Does the presence of free-floating right heart thromboemboli increase in-hospital mortality in patients with acute pulmonary embolism?
Although right heart thromboemboli are more common in severe pulmonary embolism, their presence is not an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality after adjusting for other risk factors.
Becattini et al. (2013) studied this question.
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