Key result
Pulmonary embolic disease was found to be a major cause of death in autopsy studies, with evidence of old or recent emboli in 64% of consecutive autopsied patients at one center.
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Alerts clinicians to PE as major hospital mortality driver; leaves open need for updated incidence and prevention trials.
Highlights the high prevalence and mortality associated with pulmonary embolic disease based on historical autopsy studies.
Duncan P. Thomas (1965) conducted a review in Pulmonary embolic disease. Pulmonary embolic disease was found to be a major cause of death in autopsy studies, with evidence of old or recent emboli in 64% of consecutive autopsied patients at one center.
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