title: [Diagnostic strategy of acute pulmonary embolism].
abstract: The clinical signs of acute pulmonary embolism do not have any diagnostic specificity; they only raise the suspicion of the diagnosis, which is confirmed by complementary investigations: pulmonary perfusion and ventilation scintigraphy, phlebography of the lower limbs and pulmonary angiography. Non invasive diagnostic tests are now preferred; echocardiography, Doppler ultrasound of the lower limbs, assay of D-dimers, helicoidal thoracic CT scan. Diagnostic decision trees are proposed on the basis of these data.
authors.affiliation: Service de Pneumologie et Réanimation Respiratoire, Hôpital Antoine Bécière, Clamart.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Duroux
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000098:blood supply / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008722:Methods; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography
vernacular_title: Stratégie diagnostique des embolies pulmonaires aiguës.