Key result
Pulmonary thromboembolism remains a difficult to diagnose and potentially fatal disease where early diagnosis and risk stratification are essential for guiding appropriate antithrombotic or reperfusion therapy.
This review summarizes the current diagnostic strategies, including clinical scoring and CT pulmonary angiography, and treatment approaches for pulmonary thromboembolism.
Supports early diagnostic vigilance in suspected cases; leaves open refinement of risk stratification via prospective studies.
Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE), is usually a complication of deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Pulmonary thromboembolism develops as a result of obstruction of pulmonary artery and / or branches with pieces that ruptured from the deep vein thrombosis of the leg. Pulmonary thromboembolism and DVT is also referred as venous thromboembolism (VTE) because of two events often remain together. The true incidence is uncertain because of more than half of the patients can be lost before the diagnosis. Despite the many new developments in the last decade on the diagnosis and treatment, PTE is still one of the difficult to diagnose and fatal diseases of lungs. Classical and contemporary approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of PTE were evaluated together in this review.
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Şen et al. (2013) conducted a review in Pulmonary thromboembolism. Pulmonary thromboembolism remains a difficult to diagnose and potentially fatal disease where early diagnosis and risk stratification are essential for guiding appropriate antithrombotic or reperfusion therapy.
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