August 1, 1927Archives of Surgery

Fatal Pulmonary Embolism

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313 cases of pulmonary embolism identified from postmortem examinations at the Mayo Clinic over 10 years…

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EHEarl F. HendersonUnited States National Library of Medicine

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Older postoperative patients face elevated fatal PE risk; Level 5 data leaves open modern prophylaxis trials.

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Population

313 cases of pulmonary embolism identified from postmortem examinations at the Mayo Clinic over 10 years (267 surgical, 46 nonsurgical). Among the 223 cases where emboli were the primary cause of death, there were 104 men and 119 women, with an average age of 53.2 years.

Outcome

Incidence and characteristics of fatal pulmonary embolismhard clinical

Fatal pulmonary embolism is predominantly a post-operative complication that tends to affect patients who are older than the average surgical population.

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Earl F. Henderson (1927) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9078b785f80aee81dd820d https://doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.1927.01130200079005

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Fatal Pulmonary Embolism

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Fatal Pulmonary Embolism

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