Description
This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, edited by Drs. Peter Marshall and Wassim Fares, focuses on Pulmonary Embolism, with topics including: Clinical Probability Tools for DVT, PE, & Bleeding; Prevention of DVTs and Pulmonary Emboli: General Measures and High-Risk Populations; Diagnosis of DVTs and PEs: New Imaging Tools and Modalities; Perfusion Defects Misdiagnosed as Pulmonary Emboli; The Vicious Cycle of Hypercoagulability and Pulmonary Hypertension; VTE in Special Populations; Preganncy and Thrombo-embolic Disease; Challenges and Changes to the Management of PE in the Emergency Department; The Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute & Chronic Pulmonary Embolism; Management of Low-Risk PE; Update on the 'Novel' and Direct Oral Anticoagulants; Risk Stratification: Definitive/Aggressive Treatment of Hemodynamically Stable but Intermediate Risk Patients; Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT); Surgical and Other Interventions for DVTs; IVC Filters; Catheter-Based Therapies of Pulmonary Emboli; Surgical-Based Therapies for PEs; and Chronic Thrombo-embolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH).
Table of Contents
Preface: Venous Thromboembolism: An Evolving EntityClinical Probability Tools for Deep Venous Thrombosis, Pulmonary Embolism, andBleedingPrevention of Deep Vein Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism in High-Risk MedicalPatientsDiagnosis of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Pulmonary Embolism: New ImagingTools and ModalitiesIntraluminal Arterial Filling Defects Misdiagnosed as Pulmonary Emboli: What ElseCould They Be?Venous Thromboembolism in Special Populations: Preexisting CardiopulmonaryDisease, Cirrhosis, End-Stage Renal Disease, and AspleniaPregnancy and Pulmonary EmbolismChallenges and Changes to the Management of Pulmonary Embolism in theEmergency DepartmentThe Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute and ChronicPulmonary EmbolismManagement of Low-Risk Pulmonary EmbolismAggressive Treatment of Intermediate-Risk Patients with Acute SymptomaticPulmonary EmbolismAn Update on the "Novel" and Direct Oral Anticoagulants, and Long-TermAnticoagulant TherapyHypercoagulability in Pulmonary HypertensionChronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension: An UpdatePulmonary Embolism Response Team: Inpatient Structure, Outpatient Follow-up,and Is It the Current Standard of Care?Endovascular and Open Surgery for Deep Vein ThrombosisInferior Vena Cava Filters: Why, Who, and for How Long?Catheter-Based Therapies for Pulmonary EmboliSurgical Management of Acute and Chronic Pulmonary Embolism
