title: [Clinical diagnosis and prognosis of pulmonary thromboembolism].
abstract: Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a nosological entity that complicates the course of many diseases. This circumstance determines difficulties in the diagnosis and determination of further patient management tactics. Bolus-enhanced computed tomography of pulmonary arteries, a method having high resolution and high accuracy, is presently accepted to be the gold standard to verify the diagnosis. At the same time this radiocontrast study cannot be used as a screening tool by economic and other reasoning, which determines the importance of the clinical diagnosis of the disease. This review considers different approaches to diagnosing PTE and a base of elaborated clinical algorithms and comparatively assesses empirical and scoring systems for the diagnosis and prediction of a disease course characterized by the rapidness and unpredictability of an outcome even in correctly made diagnosis.
authors.forename: F S
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Ustinov
authors.forename: S G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Leont'ev
authors.forename: A V
authors.initials: AV
authors.lastname: Mironov
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Kirienko
mesh_terms: D000792:Angiography / Q000379:methods; D015415:Biomarkers; D006801:Humans; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011379:Prognosis; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000175:diagnosis*; D018570:Risk Assessment; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers