Echocardiography provides critical findings for risk stratification and guiding management, such as the use of fibrinolytic therapy, in patients with acute pulmonary embolism presenting with hypotension or shock.
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May support echocardiography for acute PE risk stratification; hypothesis-generating for fibrinolysis guidance pending prospective trials.
Cohen et al. (2012) studied this question.
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