title: [Diagnosis of lung embolism. Prospective study].
abstract: In a prospective study over the years 1983-1985, 300 cases of acute pulmonary embolism were analyzed in relation to predisposing factors, clinical signs, arterial blood gas analysis and isotope perfusion scanning. Comparison of this prospective study with an earlier retrospective one showed similar results, with the exception of isotope scanning, an investigation which has gained increasing diagnostic reliability (highly suggestive results in 94% of patients with massive pulmonary embolism and in 64% with submassive pulmonary embolism). In two thirds of the cases the diagnosis was established during the first day after hospitalisation. In 10% of the patients pulmonary embolism occurred despite anticoagulant therapy.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000925:Anticoagulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011446:Prospective Studies; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012008:Recurrence; D012306:Risk
chemical_list: D000925:Anticoagulants
vernacular_title: Zur Diagnose der Lungenembolie.