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The challenges of identifying pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized for exacerbations of COPD.

Respir Med Res

November 2024

Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, The First People's Hospital of Yunnan Province, The Affiliated Hospital of Kunming University of Science and Technology. Kunming 650022, China. Electronic address:

Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is associated with airflow obstruction that threatens global health. During the hospitalization of patients with acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD), the high prevalence of pulmonary embolism (PE) seriously affects the prognosis of disease. This study aims to assess the differences in clinical data between patients with AECOPD and patients with AECOPD-PE, and to identify the relevant factors of PE.

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