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Clot-in-transit: A ticking time bomb in the heart with serious consequences

SAGE Open Medical Case Reports, 2023
Clot-in-transit is associated with severe pulmonary embolism and higher mortality than acute pulmonary embolism without clot-in-transit. The optimal treatment of clot-in-transit is not established.
Rita Igwilo, Alberto Pinsino, Feyzullah Aksan, Sumit Kapoor   +3 more
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Adoption of a dedicated multidisciplinary team is associated with improved survival in acute pulmonary embolism

Respiratory Research, 2020
Background Acute pulmonary embolism remains a significant cause of mortality and morbidity worldwide. Benefit of recently developed multidisciplinary PE response teams (PERT) with higher utilization of advanced therapies has not been established. Methods
Lukasz A. Myc, Jigna N. Solanki, Andrew J. Barros, Nebil Nuradin, Matthew G. Nevulis, Kranthikiran Earasi, Emily D. Richardson, Shawn C. Tsutsui, Kyle B. Enfield, Nicholas R. Teman, Ziv J. Haskal, Sula Mazimba, Jamie L. W. Kennedy, Andrew D. Mihalek, Aditya M. Sharma, Alexandra Kadl   +15 more
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Catheter-Based Therapies Decrease Mortality in Patients With Intermediate and High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism: Evidence From Meta-Analysis of 65,589 Patients

Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine, 2022
BackgroundCatheter-directed therapies (CDT) are an alternative to systemic thrombolysis (ST) in pulmonary embolism (PE) patients, but the mortality benefit of CDT is unclear.ObjectiveWe conducted a systematic review with meta-analysis to compare the ...
Arkadiusz Pietrasik, Aleksandra Gąsecka, Łukasz Szarpak, Łukasz Szarpak, Michał Pruc, Tomasz Kopiec, Szymon Darocha, Marta Banaszkiewicz, Maciej Niewada, Marcin Grabowski, Marcin Kurzyna   +10 more
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Achieving Multidisciplinary Collaboration for the Creation of a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team: Creating a “Team of Rivals” [PDF]

Seminars in Interventional Radiology, 2017
Christopher Kabrhel
exaly   +2 more sources

Management of Patient by a Pulmonary Embolism Response Team in the Emergency Department

Cam & Sakura Medical Journal, 2022
Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when the pulmonary arterial system is blocked by a thrombus. Mortality is attributed to the right ventricle failure due to the increased pressure load.
Kemal Şener, Özgür Kılıçkesmez, Banu Arslan, Kübra Selçok, Ramazan Güven, Mücahit Kapçı   +5 more
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Management of a huge right atrial thrombus in a patient with multiple comorbidities

The Egyptian Heart Journal, 2020
Background Floating right heart thrombi (RHT) represent an underdiagnosed, potentially hazardous, and to some extent rare phenomenon in patients presenting with acute pulmonary embolism (APE).
Peter Philip Shaker Selwanos, Ahmed Osman Ahmed, Karim Mohamed El Bakry, Ahmed Nazmy Elsharkawy, Omar Alaaeldin Mohamed, Hatem Hosny, Amir Anwar Shaker Samaan   +6 more
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The use of thrombolytic therapy in a multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response team

Thrombosis Update, 2021
Introduction: The implementation of a pulmonary embolism response team (PERT) is associated with an increase in the use of thrombolysis, in particular, catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT).
Anders Kramer, Christian Schmidt Mortensen, Jacob Gammelgaard Schultz, Nicholas Giordano, Hui Zheng, Asger Andersen, Jens Erik Nielsen-Kudsk, Christopher Kabrhel   +7 more
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Multidisciplinary pulmonary embolism response teams and systems [PDF]

Cardiovascular Diagnosis and Therapy, 2016
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a complex diagnosis that encompasses a wide range of clinical presentations. Often patients who present with PE have complicated medical histories which can make their management challenging. Many novel therapeutic strategies and tools are emerging to improve the care and outcomes of patients with PE.
Peter P, Monteleone, Kenneth, Rosenfield, Rachel P, Rosovsky   +2 more
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Barriers and facilitators to interhospital transfer of acute pulmonary embolism: An inductive qualitative analysis

Frontiers in Medicine, 2023
BackgroundInterhospital transfer (IHT) of patients with acute life-threatening pulmonary embolism (PE) is necessary to facilitate specialized care and access to advanced therapies.
Jacob DeBerry, Parth Rali, Michael McDaniel, Christopher Kabrhel, Rachel Rosovsky, Roman Melamed, Oren Friedman, Jean M. Elwing, Vijay Balasubramanian, Sandeep Sahay, Eduardo Bossone, Mary Jo S. Farmer, Andrew J. P. Klein, Megan E. Hamm, Charles B. Ross, Belinda N. Rivera-Lebron   +15 more
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Pulmonary artery diameter correlates with echocardiographic parameters of right ventricular dysfunction in patients with acute pulmonary embolism

Lung India, 2023
Introduction: Right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) is a key component in the process of risk stratification in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE).
Oisin O'Corragain, Rami Alashram, Gregory Millio, Catherine Vanchiere, John Hojoon Hwang, Maruti Kumaran, Chandra Dass, Huaqing Zhao, Joseph Panero, Vlad Lakhter, Rohit Gupta, Riyaz Bashir, Gary Cohen, David Jimenez, Gerard Criner, Parth Rali   +15 more
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