Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Normal Blood Pressure, and Echocardiographic Right Ventricular Dysfunction

Grifoni, Stefano; Olivotto, Iacopo; Cecchini, Paolo; Pieralli, Filippo; Camaiti, Alberto; Santoro, Gennaro; Conti, Alberto; Agnelli, Giancarlo; Bèrni, G

doi:10.1161/01.cir.101.24.2817

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Short-Term Clinical Outcome of Patients With Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Normal Blood Pressure, and Echocardiographic Right Ventricular Dysfunction

Published in Circulation • Jun 20, 2000

Authors:

Stefano Grifoni

Iacopo Olivotto

Paolo Cecchini

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The role of echocardiographic right ventricular (RV) dysfunction in predicting clinical outcome in clinically stable patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) is undefined. In this study, we assessed the prevalence and clinical outcome of normotensive patients with RV dysfunction among a bro...

Subject

Medicine

Internal medicine

Cardiology

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