The new bedside ROCky score to predict the complications in patients with intermediate-risk pulmonary embolism.

Objective: Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains one of the leading causes of mortality among cardiovascular diseases. We aimed at investigating risk factors of PE complications in patients with intermediate risk and integrate them into a simple model for its' bedside prediction.

Methods: Among 173 patients with PE, 136 were classified as high or intermediate risk.

Left Ventricle Non-Compaction Myocardium and Thrombophilia in a Pregnant Woman.

Unlabelled: Non-compaction of the ventricular myocardium (NCM) is a genetic cardiomyopathy usually due to mutationof the G4.5 gene located in the Xq28 chromosomal region. This congenital disorder is characterized by pronounced trabeculations and intertrabecular recesses resulting from abnormal embryogenesis between the fifth and eighth fetal weeks.