title: Diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism.
abstract: Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common, serious and potentially fatal event. Due to the serious nature of this ailment and since therapy is usually with long-term anticoagulation, it is important for the clinician to be able to diagnose or exclude acute PE. Several diagnostic options are available to the clinician, and below is a review of the more common modalities.
authors.affiliation: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine and Truman Medical Center, USA. ghhowellmd@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Gregory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Howell
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pyszczynski
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D036542:Tomography, Spiral Computed; D014692:Ventilation-Perfusion Ratio
chemical_list: D005338:Fibrin Fibrinogen Degradation Products; C036309:fibrin fragment D