Why the study?
Does a prospective echocardiography-based screening program improve the detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in patients after acute pulmonary embolism?
Does a prospective echocardiography-based screening program improve the detection of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension in patients after acute pulmonary embolism?
Wide-scale implementation of prolonged follow-up including routine echocardiography for all patients after acute pulmonary embolism to detect chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is not warranted due to low yield.
Low-yield post-PE echocardiography screening does not support routine use; leaves open targeted CTEPH detection strategies.
Because of the low incidence of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension after pulmonary embolism and the very low yield of the echocardiography based screening program, wide scale implementation of prolonged follow-up including echocardiography of all patients with pulmonary embolism to detect chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension does not seem to be warranted.
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