PULMONARY EMBOLISM CLINICAL EXPRESSION AND RISK FACTORS INTERFACE INVESTIGATION

Abstract

Selection of patients for diagnostic tests for acute pulmonary embolism begins with suspicion of the disease determined by clinical expression, risk factors, understanding of the pathogenesis. Patients enrolled for this study had a broad spectrum of clinical expression – from asymptomic to severe cases, life threating conditions, severe and mild progression disease course. It was appreciated all known risk factors, theirs frequencies, interface with clinical expression, was looking for new, pulmonary embolism predisposal risk factors. Broad patients selection allowed proper pulmonary embolism evaluation approximate to daily practice.