The risk factor age in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism: Effectiveness of age in predicting submassive pulmonary embolism, cardiac injury, right ventricular dysfunction and elevated systolic pulmonary artery pressure in normotensive pulmonary

Article ID	Journal	Published Year	Pages	File Type
8263373	Experimental Gerontology	2015	6 Pages	PDF

Abstract

Age is an important prognostic factor in acute normotensive PE. In addition to cTn and RVD, age should be taken into account in determining the risk stratification for acute PE.

Keywords

cTn SPAP cTnI ROC V/Q scan RVD AUC Pulmonary embolism Right ventricular dysfunction Thrombosis Deep vein thrombosis DVT Cardiac troponin Ageing Age Youden index systolic pulmonary artery pressure cardiac troponin I area under the curve receiver operating characteristic

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The risk factor age in normotensive patients with pulmonary embolism: Effectiveness of age in predicting submassive pulmonary embolism, cardiac injury, right ventricular dysfunction and elevated systolic pulmonary artery pressure in normotensive pulmonary

Authors

Karsten Keller, Johannes Beule, Meike Coldewey, Martin Geyer, Jörn Oliver Balzer, Wolfgang Dippold,