Dimitrios A Chatzelas, Apostolos G Pitoulias, Vangelis Bontinis, Theodosia N Zampaka, Georgios V Tsamourlidis, Alkis Bontinis, Anastasios G Potouridis, Maria D Tachtsi, Georgios A Pitoulias
PURPOSE: This study aims to investigate whether routine screening for silent pulmonary embolism (PE) can be justified in patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT). MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed the medical records of 201 patients with lower-extremity DVT admitted to the vascular surgery department of a single tertiary university center between 2019 and 2023. All patients underwent clinical evaluation, basic laboratory exams, a whole-leg colored duplex ultrasound, and a computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA), to screen for an occult, underlying PE...
April 25, 2024: Vascular Specialist International