Early Use of Echocardiography in Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Findings From the RIETE Registry

Early Use of Echocardiography in Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism: Findings From the RIETE Registry

Background Transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) is often considered for risk stratification of patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). We sought to determine the contemporary utilization of early TTE (within 72 hours of PE diagnosis) and explored the association between TTE findings and PE‐rela...

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Main Authors: Behnood Bikdeli, José Luis Lobo, David Jiménez, Philip Green, Carmen Fernández‐Capitán, Alessandra Bura‐Riviere, Remedios Otero, Marco R. DiTullio, Silvia Galindo, Martin Ellis, Sahil A. Parikh, Manuel Monreal
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2018-09-01
Series:Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease
Subjects:
echocardiography
pulmonary embolism
trends
Online Access:https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/JAHA.118.009042

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