edited by Stavros V. Konstantinides ; foreword by Samuel Z. Goldhaber.
Totowa, N.J. :
Humana Press,
c2007.
xii, 271 p. :
ill. (some col.) ;
27 cm.
Contemporary cardiology
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diagnostic approach to the patient with suspected pulmonary embolism. Clinical probablility and D-dimer testing / Philip S. Wells. Imaging of acute pulmonary embolism / James G. Ravenel and U. Joseph Schoepf. The search for deep vein thrombosis: evaluation of the leg veins / Jan Beyer and Sebastian M. Schellong. Risk stratification of pulmonary embolism: detection and prognostic impact of right ventricular dysfunction / Stavros V. Knostantinides. Cardiac biomarkers in the diagnostic workup of pulmonary embolism / Evangelos Giannitsis and Hugo A. Katus. Importance of a patent foramen ovale / Annette Geibel, Manfred Zehender, and Wolfgang Kasper. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically stable patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Arnaud Perrier. Contemporary diagnostic algorithm for the hemodynamically unstable patient with suspected pulmonary embolism / Stavros V. Konstantinides -- Treatment and secondary prophylaxis of venous thromboembolism. Heparin anticoagulation / Graham F. Pineo and Russell D. Hull. Thrombolysis / Guy Meyer. Management of the patient with fulminant pulmonary embolism undergoing cardiopulmonary resuscitation / Fabian Spöhr and Bernd W. Böttiger. Surgical pulmonary embolectomy / Ani C. Anyanwu and Lishan Aklog. Interventional approaches to the treatment of acute massive pulmonary embolism / Nils Kucher. Vitamin K antagonists and novel oral anticoagulants / Giancarlo Agnelli and Cecilia Becattini -- Specific aspects. Hereditary and acquired thrombophilia / Hanno Riess. Venous thromboembolism and cancer / Paolo Prandoni, Anna Falanga, and Andrea Piccioli. Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy / Simon J. McRae and Shannon M. Bates. Venous thromboembolism in the era of air travel / Frédéric Lapostolle ... [et al.]. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension / Irene M. Lang and Walter Klepetko.