Clinical Features of Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism in Younger Patients

The incidence of acute pulmonary thromboembolism (APTE) in younger patients is extremely low compared with older patients, so the clinical features of these younger patients with APTE is unknown. In the present study, 8 patients with APTE who were less than 40 years old (YG) were compared with 40 pa...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Circulation Journal 2003, Vol.67(4), pp.330-333
Hauptverfasser:	Arima, Mizuhiro, Kanoh, Tatsuji, Takagi, Atsutoshi, Tanimoto, Kosei, Oigawa, Tetsuya, Matsuda, Shigeru
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Acute Disease Acute pulmonary thromboembolism Adult Aged Aging Biological and medical sciences Coagulopathy Deep venous thrombosis Female Humans Male Medical sciences Middle Aged Pneumology Prognosis Pulmonary Embolism - physiopathology Pulmonary Embolism - therapy Pulmonary hypertension. Acute cor pulmonale. Pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary vascular diseases Thromboembolism - physiopathology Thromboembolism - therapy Younger patients
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Zusammenfassung:	The incidence of acute pulmonary thromboembolism (APTE) in younger patients is extremely low compared with older patients, so the clinical features of these younger patients with APTE is unknown. In the present study, 8 patients with APTE who were less than 40 years old (YG) were compared with 40 patients who were more than 41 years of age (OG). All YG patients had coagulopathy compared with 3 patients in the OG (p
ISSN:	1346-9843 1347-4820
DOI:	10.1253/circj.67.330