Filipa Gerardo, Daniel Faria, Pedro Silvério António, João Baltazar Ferreira, Marco Beringuilho, Hilaryano Ferreira, Inês Fialho, Inês Miranda, Yolanda Sá Pereira, Afonso Nunes Ferreira, David Roque, Miguel B Santos, Carlos Morais, Sérgio Bravo Baptista, João B Augusto
INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE: Several scoring systems have been developed for risk stratification in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE). The Pulmonary Embolism Severity Index (PESI) and its simplified version (sPESI) are among the most used, however the high number of variables hinder its application. Our aim was to derive an easy-to-perform score based on simple parameters obtained at admission to predict 30-day mortality in acute PE patients. METHODS: Retrospective study in 1115 patients with acute PE from two institutions (derivation cohort n=835, validation cohort n=280)...
July 7, 2023: Portuguese Journal of Cardiology: An Official Journal of the Portuguese Society of Cardiology