Management of acute pulmonary embolism / edited by Stavros V. Konstantinides ; foreword by Samuel Z. Goldhaber.
In "Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism", traditional, novel, and evolving aspects related to the diagnosis and treatment of PE are highlighted by an international team of experts who have significantly contributed to the advances on this exciting field. The book is divided into three p...
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| Series: | Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J.)
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Table of Contents:
- Diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism. Clinical probablility and D-dimer testing / Philip S. Wells. Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism / James G. Ravenel and U. Joseph Schoepf. The search for deep vein thrombosis: evaluation of the leg veins / Jan Beyer and Sebastian M. Schellong. Risk stratification of pulmonary embolism: detection and prognostic impact of right ventricular dysfunction / Stavros V. Knostantinides. Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary embolism / Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus. Importance of a patent foramen ovale / Annette Geibel, Manfred Zehender, and Wolfgang Kasper. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically stable patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Arnaud Perrier. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically unstable patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Stavros V. Konstantinides
- Treatment and secondary prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism. Heparin anticoagulation / Graham F. Pineo and Russell D. Hull. Thrombolysis / Guy Meyer. Management of the patient with fulminant pulmonary embolism undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Fabian Spöhr and Bernd W. Böttiger. Surgical pulmonary embolectomy / Ani C. Anyanwu and Lishan Aklog. Interventional approaches to the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism / Nils Kucher. Vitamin K antagonists and novel oral anticoagulants / Giancarlo Agnelli and Cecilia Becattini
- Specific aspects. Hereditary and acquired thrombophilia / Hanno Riess. Venous thromboembolism and cancer / Paolo Prandoni, Anna Falanga, and Andrea Piccioli. Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy / Simon J. McRae and Shannon M. Bates. Venous thromboembolism in the era of air travel / Frédéric Lapostolle [and others]. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension / Irene M. Lang and Walter Klepetko.