With variable and nonspecific clinical manifestations [
[1]
], pulmonary embolism (PE) is associated with a mortality of approximately 30% and
may cause sudden death within a few hours [
[2]
]. Therefore, diagnosis is challenging for clinicians as only 10–15% of patients underwent
computer tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) were actually diagnosed as having
the condition, which unavoidably leads to unnecessary and expensive investigations
and adds their associated risks. Contrarily, in many rural hospitals of China, the
CTPA cannot be performed for patients with suspected PE because of the lack of devices.Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: September 17, 2016
Accepted:
September 7,
2016
Received in revised form:
September 7,
2016
Received:
July 27,
2016
Footnotes
☆Financial support: Cangzhou Science and Technology Research and Development Program (cz1213056ZD).
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