Pulmonary embolism

Abstract

The authors submit a retrospective analysis of patients with pulmonary embolism hospitalized at the 1st Internal Clinic, Univerzity Hospital in Martin, within the years 1996-2017. Aim: Evaluation of incidence, characteristic, diagnosis and treatment of patients. Patients and methods: In this 22-years period a total 69059 patients were hospitalized, 699 of them (359 men) with pulmonary embolism. Results: Patients with explicitly confirmed pulmonary embolism created 1.01% of all hospitalized patients with the average age of 60.2 years. The average age of men compared to women was lower (56.6 vs 65.9). 14.88% of patients were diagnosed as having pulmonary embolism with high-risk, 40.77% with intermediate-risk and 44.34% with low-risk. The source of pulmonary embolism was detected in 46.35% and predisposing factors were detected in 52.79% of patients with pulmonary embolism. Early mortality rate was 7.58% of all patients with pulmonary embolism. Conclusion: The authors detected an increasing occurrence of patients with pulmonary embolism and from the year 2005 increasing occurrence of non-provoked pulmonary embolism. The average age of patients with non-provoked compared to provoked pulmonary embolism was lower in men (53.5 vs 60.9) as well as in women (56 vs 67.7). Withim one year after pulmonary embolism, 5.03% of patients with non-provoked pulmonary embolism were hospitalized because of acute coronary syndrome and 7.16% because of ischemic stroke and 2.91% of patients with provoked pulmonary embolism were hospitalized because of acute coronary syndrome and 5.61% because of ischemic stroke. Fig. 5, Ref. 35, on-line full text (Free, PDF) www.cardiologyletters.sk.