Advances in Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 7750
Special Issue Editor
2. Institut MitoVasc, UMR CNRS 6215 INSERM 1083, Health Faculty, University of Angers, Angers, France
Interests: pulmonary embolism; anticoagulant; emergency medicine; venous thromboembolism; diagnosis; clinical practice
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) is a frequent and severe disease. A lack or a delay of diagnosis and appropriate treatment initiation may be life-threatening.
In recent decades, lots of progress has been made in the diagnosis of PE and the current main strategy, based on the assessment of the pretest clinical probability, D-dimer measurement and computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA), achieves a very low rate of false negative testing. Nevertheless, the diagnosis of PE remains challenging due to several aspects. Indeed, recent observations suggest an over-testing and overdiagnosis of PE with CTPA. Conversely, the diagnosis of PE is still unfrequently evoked and/or difficult to perform in some conditions, as recently highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
This Special Issue would like to report the latest research on the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, and authors are invited to submit their articles (original research, protocol or review papers) for consideration.
Prof. Dr. Pierre Marie Roy
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- pulmonary embolism
- diagnosis
- over-testing
- clinical pretest probability
- computed tomography pulmonary angiography
- D-dimer
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