G Simonneau, H Sors, B Charbonnier, Y … - The New England …, 1997 - nejm.highwire.org Results In the first eight days of treatment, 9 of 308 patients assigned to receive unfractionated
heparin (2.9 percent) reached at least one of the end points, as compared with 9 of 304 patients
assigned to low-molecular-weight heparin (3.0 percent; absolute difference, 0.1 ... Cited by 644 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 11 versions
W Kasper, S Konstantinides, A Geibel, M … - Journal of the American …, 1997 - Elsevier Objectives. The present study investigated current management strategies as well as the clinical
course of acute major pulmonary embolism. ... Background. The clinical outcome of patients
with acute pulmonary embolism who present with overt or impending right heart failure ... Cited by 457 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 9 versions
- ►ahajournals.org S Konstantinides, A Geibel, M Olschewski, F Heinrich, … - Circulation, 1997 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results The present multicenter registry included 719 consecutive patients with
major pulmonary embolism according to clinical, echocardiographic, scintigraphic, and cardiac
catheterization criteria. Symptom onset was acute (<48 hours) in 63% of patients. All ... Cited by 392 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
KE Wood - Chest, 2002 - chestjournal.chestpubs.org Major pulmonary embolism (PE) results whenever the combination of embolism size and underlying
cardiopulmonary status interact to produce hemodynamic instability. Physical findings and standard
data crudely estimate the severity of the embolic event in patients without prior ... Cited by 310 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 14 versions
- ►bmj.com [PDF] W Kasper, S Konstantinides, A Geibel, N Tiede, T … - British Medical …, 1997 - heart.bmj.com Abstract Objective-To investigate the prognostic value of echocardiographic findings in patients
who present with symptoms sug- gestive of acute pulmonary embolism. Design-317 patients
with clinically suspected pulmonary embolism were prospectively evaluated by ... Cited by 255 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 8 versions
- ►ahajournals.org S Wan, DJ Quinlan, G Agnelli, JW Eikelboom - Circulation, 2004 - Am Heart Assoc Methods and Results— We performed a meta-analysis of all randomized trials comparing thrombolytic
therapy with heparin in patients with acute pulmonary embolism. Eleven trials, involving 748
patients, were included. Compared with heparin, thrombolytic therapy was associated ... Cited by 164 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 10 versions
G Meyer, M Gisselbrecht, JL Diehl, D Journois, H … - The American journal of …, 1998 - Elsevier PATIENTS AND METHODS: The hospital records of 132 consecutive patients who received recombinant
tissue-type plasminogen activator for massive pulmonary embolism were retrospectively
reviewed. Bleeding was estimated by using the bleeding severity index, a method ... Cited by 47 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
JA Reekers, HJ Baarslag, MGJ Koolen, O Van … - CardioVascular and …, 2003 - Springer We report our technique and results of percutaneous me- chanical thrombectomy in a consecutive
series of eight pa- tients with massive PE. We also discuss the possible role of mechanical PE
thrombectomy. Eight consecutive patients with acute massive PE, with or without ... Cited by 33 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
DF Worsley, A Alavi - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2003 - Elsevier Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a potentially fatal condition for which treatment is highly
effective. The diagnosis of PE can be challenging and often requires diagnostic imaging. For
many years, chest radiographs and ventilation-perfusion (V/Q) scintigraphy have been ... Cited by 28 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 15 versions
S Konstantinides, A Geibel, W Kasper - Thrombosis and haemostasis, 1999 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov Thrombolytic agents have been consistently demonstrated to dissolve pulmonary thrombi much
more rapidly and effectively than heparin alone. Rapid resolution of pulmonary embolism
(PE) is accompanied by a significant decrease in pulmonary artery pressure and an ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
