Research Catalog

Title

Management of acute pulmonary embolism / edited by Stavros V. Konstantinides ; foreword by Samuel Z. Goldhaber.

Publication

Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors

Konstantinides, Stavros.

Description

xii, 271 pages : illustrations (some color); 27 cm.

Series Statement

Contemporary cardiology

Uniform Title

Contemporary cardiology (Totowa, N.J.)

Subjects

• Pulmonary Embolism > diagnosis
• Pulmonary embolism > Treatment
• Pulmonary Embolism > therapy
• Acute Disease > therapy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pt. I. Diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism -- 1. Clinical probability and D-dimer testing / Philip S. Wells -- 2. Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism / James G. Ravenel and U. Joseph Schoepf -- 3. The search for deep vein thrombosis : evaluation of the leg veins / Jan Beyer and Sebastian M. Schellong -- 4. Risk stratification of pulmonary embolism : detection and prognostic impact of right ventricular dysfunction / Stavros V. Konstantinides -- 5. Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary embolism / Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus -- 6. Importance of a patent foramen ovale / Annette Geibel, Manfred Zehender and Wolfgang Kasper -- 7. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically stable patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Arnaud Perrier -- 8. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically unstable patient with suspected massive pulmonary embolism / Stavros V. Konstantinides -- Pt. II. Treatment and secondary prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism -- 9. Heparin anticoagulation / Graham F. Pineo and Russell D. Hull -- 10. Thrombolysis / Guy Meyer -- 11. Management of the patient with fulminant pulmonary embolism undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Fabian Spohr and Bernd W. Bottiger -- 12. Surgical pulmonary embolectomy / Ani C. Anyanwu and Lishan Aklog -- 13. Interventional approaches to the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism / Nils Kucher -- 14. Vitamin K antagonists and novel oral anticoagulants / Giancarlo Agnelli and Cecilia Becattini -- Pt. III. Specific aspects -- 15. Hereditary and acquired thrombophilia / Hanno Riess -- 16. Venous thromboembolism and cancer / Paolo Prandoni, Anna Falanga and Andrea Piccioli -- 17. Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy / Simon J. McRae and Shannon M. Bates -- 18. Venous thromboembolism in the era of air travel / Frederic Lapostolle, Jean Catineau, Claude Lapandry and Frederic Adnet -- 19. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension / Irene M. Lang and Walter Klepetko.

ISBN

• 158829644X (alk. paper)
• 9781588296443 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2006008250

OCLC

• ocm64760987
• 64760987
• SCSB-5329455

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries