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Vascular Techniques in Pulmonary Embolism

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Abstract

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a frequent event, especially in certain patient groups, and carries a high mortality rate in affected individuals (1). It has been estimated that early diagnosis and start of an adequate therapeutic regimen is responsible for a 50% reduction of immediate mortality (2). Acute PE, untreated, causes approximately 30% mortality, of which about one third of deaths occurring within the first hour. Immediate death is essentially due to massive embolism causing critical obstruction of the pulmonary arterial bed.

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  1. Department of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Trieste University School of Medicine, Trieste, Italy

    Antonino Gullo M.D. (Head) (Head)

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Fava, C., Grosso, M., Veltri, A., Galli, J. (1996). Vascular Techniques in Pulmonary Embolism. In: Gullo, A. (eds) Anaesthesia, Pain, Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine — A.P.I.C.E.. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-88-470-2203-4_24

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