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Clinical presentation and diagnostic work up of suspected pulmonary embolism in a district hospital emergency centre serving a high HIV/TB burden population

INTRODUCTION: The diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE) is challenging to make and is often missed in the emergency centre. The diagnostic work-up of PE has been improved by the use of clinical decision rules (CDRs) and CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) in high-income countries. CDRs have not been vali...

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Autores principales: Bulajic, Bojana, Welzel, Tyson, Vallabh, Kamil
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6742596/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31528531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2019.05.003