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Monday, May 27, 2019

It is important for physician to be oriented with the following percentage of clinical symptoms and signs of suspected pulmonary embolism according to the literature reports: dyspnea (65%), pleuritic chest pain (47%), substernal chest pain (33%), pre-syncope or syncope (13%), haemoptysis (9%), fever with temperature higher than 38.5 °C (28%), cough (17%), signs of unilateral DVT (33%), totally asymptomatic (16%), sudden death (25%), sinus tachycardia with heart rate more than 100/min (26%), tachypnea with respiratory rate more than 20/min (75%), hypotension with shock (20%), hypoxaemia on arterial blood gases (75%), electrocardiographic right ventricular hypertrophy (50%) and radiological; atelectasis (49%), pleural effusion (51%), raised hemidiaphragm (36%), peripheral opacification with infarct (33%), and lung oligemia (36%)

ACUTE PULMONARY EMBOLISM

Alexandros Sfakianakis
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