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[The traps of pulmonary embolism].
Annales de Cardiologie et D'angéiologie 1998 November
The clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism (PE), even massive, remains difficult and perplexing. In our hospital, the percentage of exact clinical diagnoses has not significantly changed over recent years, with a false-negative rate of 78%, and a false-positive rate of 2%. In approximately 20% of cases, autopsy showed several emboli and pulmonary infarctions of various ages, indicating recurrent embolic episodes. The diseases most frequently associated were cardiac diseases (51%) and tumours (24%). Pneumonia considerably decreases the probability of an exact diagnosis of PE; hospitalisation in the Cardiology department or Intensive Care Unit increased the probability of this diagnosis. While the numerous diagnostic algorithms recently proposed have a limited value, the process integrating clinical and instrumental data in order to establish a prospective clinical probability, should facilitate identification of acute PE in live patients.
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