“…All Persian-speaking surviving patients with records in the Pulmonary Emboli Registry of Rajaie Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center (RHC-PE) between September 2015 and August 2018 were invited via phone calls to participate in the present prospective study. The RHC-PE registry is an all-comers cohort of patients with a confirmed diagnosis of PE [ 21 ]. Briefly, PE was diagnosed mainly via computed tomography pulmonary angiography.…”