What is it about?
The authors investigated the location of pulmonary embolism (PE) diagnosed on gynecologic postoperative days 1 and 2, and also investigated the clinical characteristics of women who were diagnosed with postoperative PE within 2 months after surgery.
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Why is it important?
The present study is important because little is known about the identifying PE in the early postoperative phase.
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Some women with pulmonary embolism showed few symptoms even though they have emboli in their lobar arteries or more proximal sites on post-operative days 1 or 2. Fatal events might occur when such asymptomatic or few-symptomatic cases would be overlooked.
Dr Masao Okadome
National Kyushu Cancer Center
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This page is a summary of: Early Identification of Asymptomatic Pulmonary Embolism Proximal to the Subsegmental Arteries After Gynecologic Surgery, Clinical and Applied Thrombosis/Hemostasis, May 2015, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1076029615584663.
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