Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Konstantinides, Stavros V. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, 2007.
• Series: Contemporary Cardiology
• Subjects: Medicine.; Internal medicine.; Cardiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Internal Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism highlights traditional, novel, and evolving aspects of the diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary embolism (PE). The contributors comprise an international team of experts, who have each made noteworthy contributions in this exciting field. Important aspects of d...

Table of Contents:

• Diagnostic Approach to the Patient with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
• Clinical Probability and D-Dimer Testing
• Imaging of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
• The Search for Deep Vein Thrombosis
• Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Embolism
• Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diagnostic Workup of Pulmonary Embolism
• Importance of a Patent Foramen Ovale
• Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Stable Patient With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
• Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient With Suspected Massive Pulmonary Embolism
• Treatment and Secondary Prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism
• Heparin Anticoagulation
• Thrombolysis
• Management of the Patient With Fulminant Pulmonary Embolism Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
• Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy
• Interventional Approaches to the Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism
• Vitamin K Antagonists and Novel Oral Anticoagulant
• Specific Aspects
• Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilia
• Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer
• Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy
• Venous Thromboembolism in the Era of Air Travel
• Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.