Cardiology Letters 2018, 27(4):204-211

Pulmonary embolism

Belicová M¹, Jankovičová V², Ochodnický M¹, Mokáň M¹

¹ 1I. interná klinika, Univerzitná nemocnica a JLFUK v Martine

² Stredoslovenský ústav srdcových a cievnych chorôb a.s. Banská Bystrica, Slovenská republika

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 intermediaterisk 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 nonprovoked 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.

Keywords: pulmonary embolism; deep vein thrombosis; predisposing factors

Published: April 1, 2018  Show citation