Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
JAMA Clinical Reviews
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CT Pulmonary Angiogram
The CT pulmonary angiogram has a sensitivity of about 95%. That means that a negative CTPA can rule out PE with a risk of failure of less than 1%. The only alternative is to do lower lame Doppler ultrasonography. If the pregnant patient has a suspicion of PE and if we diagnose a deep venous thrombosis on echo then we can consider this patient as having PE.
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