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- Pulmonary embolism (PE) can show a wide range of symptoms, from none at all to severe hemodynamic collapse, despite similar appearances of clots in imaging tests.
- The authors aimed to find a link between the age of the blood clots and the patients' clinical symptoms by examining the clots under a microscope.
- They studied 13 thrombectomy samples from PE patients to determine the age of the thrombus based on its microscopic features and how it related to the patients' clinical outcomes.
Article Abstract
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a very common clinical entity with clinical symptoms that range from no symptom to complete hemodynamic collapse, sometimes with similar-appearing clot burden on computed tomographic pulmonary angiogram. Given highly variable clinical presentation, the authors wanted to investigate if there is clinical correlation based on the age of a clot with microscopic examination to clinical presentation. Thirteen thrombectomy aspirates from patients with an acute PE were microscopically analyzed. The goal was to age the thrombus based on histologic features and correlate it to clinical course.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.hfc.2022.08.014 | DOI Listing |
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