Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism (eBook)

FOREWORD 6
PREFACE 8
CONTENTS 10
CONTRIBUTORS 12
I DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH TO THE PATIENT WITH SUSPECTED PULMONARY EMBOLISM 14
1 Clinical Probability and D- Dimer Testing 15
2 Imaging of Acute Pulmonary Embolism 30
3 The Search for Deep Vein Thrombosis 53
4 Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Embolism 66
5 Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diagnostic Workup of Pulmonary Embolism 78
6 Importance of a Patent Foramen Ovale 88
7 Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Stable Patient With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism 99
8 Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient With Suspected Massive Pulmonary Embolism 112
II TREATMENT AND SECONDARY PROPHYLAXIS OF VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLISM 116
9 Heparin Anticoagulation 117
10 Thrombolysis 131
11 Management of the Patient With Fulminant Pulmonary Embolism Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation 143
12 Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy 153
13 Interventional Approaches to the Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism 167
14 Vitamin K Antagonists and Novel Oral Anticoagulants 181
III SPECIFIC ASPECTS 191
15 Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilia 192
16 Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer 204
17 Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy 217
18 Venous Thromboembolism in the Era of Air Travel 238
19 Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension 244
INDEX 267