Healthcare professionals use the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) and the simplified PESI (sPESI) to help determine your mortality risk within 30 days of experiencing a pulmonary embolism ...

It has been employed in the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index but counts for only 10 points out of 210. "If you look at ILD and PE outcomes, there's nothing really out there [in the literature ...

The median follow-up for PE was 3.72 years, with 961 PE cases occurring, including 5.4% (n=52) out-of-hospital fatal events. Adjusted SHRs ranged from 1.33 (95% CI, 1.11-1.60) in patients with 1 ...

Abstract This report has discussed the use of an angiographic severity index for pulmonary embolism in the analysis of pulmonary angiograms from 160 patients admitted to the Urokinase-Pulmonary ...

The researchers determined whether the proportion of ED discharges for acute PE changed between 2012 to 2020 — and what baseline characteristics were associated with discharge — by examining ...

Abstract Objective We evaluated the association between the triglyceride–glucose (TG) index, a marker of insulin resistance, and obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) severity in patients without diabetes ...

High-sensitivity cardiac troponin I (hs-cTnI) may overestimate risk in patients with hemodynamically stable pulmonary embolism (PE), which could translate into unnecessary monitoring, treatment, and ...

When considering outpatient management, guidelines recommend assessing patients for PE severity, comorbidities, and contraindications to home treatment. Two widely used, validated tools are the PE ...

"We have tools like the Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index and biomarkers that allow for appropriate management of these patients, but they do not typically include those 'concerning' CT findings.