Pulmonary thromboembolism is currently one of the leading causes of disease burden and mortality in Europe, also known as the great masquerader, for its ability to mimic other diseases or to present itself with few symptoms, especially when the pulmonary embolism is very small. With aging population, increased survival of cancer patients and the addition of multiple debilitating diseases such as dementia, heart failure, chronic kidney disease the rate of pulmonary embolism is spiking, with more and more small pulmonary embolism being diagnosed, that may have no immediate impact on mortality, but which may contribute to an increase in morbidity. We have examined retrospectively 108 consecutively cases of pulmonary thromboembolism that have presented in the Emergency Department of Municipal Hospital in Timisoara, Romania over the course of twenty-one months from September 2016 to May 2018 and we evaluated the clinical and laboratory findings in studying the influence of age over the severity of pulmonary embolism.
Pulmonary thromboembolism is currently one of the leading causes of disease burden and mortality in Europe, also known as the great masquerader, for its ability to mimic other diseases or to present itself with few symptoms, especially when the pulmonary embolism is very small. With aging population, increased survival of cancer patients and the addition of multiple debilitating diseases such as dementia, heart failure, chronic kidney disease the rate of pulmonary embolism is spiking, with more and more small pulmonary embolism being diagnosed, that may have no immediate impact on mortality, but which may contribute to an increase in morbidity. We have examined retrospectively 108 consecutively cases of pulmonary thromboembolism that have presented in the Emergency Department of Municipal Hospital in Timisoara, Romania over the course of twenty-one months from September 2016 to May 2018 and we evaluated the clinical and laboratory findings in studying the influence of age over the severity of pulmonary embolism.
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