Research Catalog

Title

Pulmonary embolism / Paul D. Stein.

Author

Stein, Paul D.

Publication

Baltimore : Williams & Wilkins, [1996], ©1996.

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Description

xiv, 330 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Pulmonary Embolism
• Pulmonary embolism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• 1. Prevalence in a General Hospital -- 2. Changing Risks of Untreated Deep Venous Thrombosis and Acute Pulmonary Embolism -- 3. Pulmonary Embolism among Patients with Negative Pulmonary Angiograms -- 4. Sensitivity and Specificity of Examination of the Lower Extremities for Deep Venous Thrombosis -- 5. The History and Physical Examination in Patients with No Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease -- 6. The History and Physical Examination in All Patients Irrespective of Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease -- 7. The Electrocardiogram -- 8. The Plain Chest Radiograph -- 9. Arterial Blood Gases and the Alveolar-Arterial Oxygen Difference -- 10. D-Dimer in Diagnosis -- 11. Neural Network Computer Assisted Diagnosis -- 12. Techniques of Perfusion and Ventilation Imaging -- 13. Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scan Criteria Prior to PIOPED -- 14. Observations from PIOPED: Value of Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scans Alone and in Combination with Clinical Assessment --
• 15. Lung Scans in Patients with a Normal Chest Radiograph, Patients with No Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease and Patients with Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease -- 16. Perfusion Lung Scans Alone in Acute Pulmonary Embolism -- 17. Revised Criteria for Evaluation of Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scans Recommended by Nuclear Physicians in PIOPED -- 18. Criteria for Very Low Probability Interpretation of Ventilation-Perfusion Lung Scans -- 19. Pulmonary Embolism in Patients with Small Perfusion Defects -- 20. Matched Defects of Ventilation, Perfusion and the Chest Radiograph: The Triple Matched Defect -- 21. Pulmonary Embolism in a Single Lung with a Normal Scan and an Abnormal Contralateral Side -- 22. Probability Assessment Based on the Number of Mismatched Segmental Equivalent Perfusion Defects and Stratification According to Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease -- 23. Probability Assessment Based on the Number of Mismatched Vascular Defects and Stratification According to Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease --
• 24. Addition of Clinical Assessment to Stratification According to Prior Cardiopulmonary Disease Further Optimizes Interpretation -- 25. Stratification According to Age in Interpretation of Lung Scans -- 26. Complications of Pulmonary Angiography -- 27. Standard and Augmented Techniques in Pulmonary Angiography -- 28. Diagnosis in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- 29. Clinical Assessment and Ventilation/Perfusion Lung Scans in the Critically Ill -- 30. Diagnosis in the Elderly and Age-Related Manifestations -- 31. Diagnosis in Women -- 32. Strategies for Diagnosis -- 33. Prevention of Deep Venous Thrombosis -- 34. Antithrombotic Treatment of Deep Venous Thrombosis and Acute Pulmonary Embolism -- 35. Relative Risks of Anticoagulant Therapy Based on an Angiographic Versus a Noninvasive Diagnosis -- 36. Thrombolytic Therapy -- 37. Relative Risks of Thrombolytic Therapy Based on an Angiographic Versus a Noninvasive Diagnosis --
• 38. Mechanical Interventions: Inferior Vena Cava Occlusion, Catheter Embolectomy, Catheter-Tip Fragmentation, Pulmonary Embolectomy and Thromboendarterectomy.

ISBN

0683079964

LCCN

96020423

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Columbia University Libraries