Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran

We present the case of a 44-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) via emergency medical services with a chief concern of shortness of breath and was found to have bilateral pulmonary emboli (PE) while taking the direct oral anticoagulant dabigatran. The authors highlight the...

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Autores principales: Clark, Emily, Walker, Joshua, Aleksandrovskiy, Ilya, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285847
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15737
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author Clark, Emily
Walker, Joshua
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description We present the case of a 44-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) via emergency medical services with a chief concern of shortness of breath and was found to have bilateral pulmonary emboli (PE) while taking the direct oral anticoagulant dabigatran. The authors highlight the importance of considering PE even in patients who are on anticoagulation.
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spelling pubmed-82866352021-07-19 Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran Clark, Emily Walker, Joshua Aleksandrovskiy, Ilya Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine We present the case of a 44-year-old female who presented to the emergency department (ED) via emergency medical services with a chief concern of shortness of breath and was found to have bilateral pulmonary emboli (PE) while taking the direct oral anticoagulant dabigatran. The authors highlight the importance of considering PE even in patients who are on anticoagulation. Cureus 2021-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC8286635/ /pubmed/34285847 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15737 Text en Copyright © 2021, Clark et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Emergency Medicine
Clark, Emily
Walker, Joshua
Aleksandrovskiy, Ilya
Ganti, Latha
Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title_full Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title_fullStr Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title_short Bilateral Pulmonary Emboli on Dabigatran
title_sort bilateral pulmonary emboli on dabigatran
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8286635/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34285847
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.15737
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