Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism

I. Diagnostic Approach to the Patient with Suspected Pulmonary Embolism

1. Clinical Probability and D-Dimer Testing
Philip S. Wells

2. Imaging of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
James G. Ravenel, U. Joseph Schoepf

3. The Search for Deep Vein Thrombosis
Jan Beyer, Sebastian M. Schellong

4. Risk Stratification of Pulmonary Embolism
Stavros V. Konstantinides

5. Cardiac Biomarkers in the Diagnostic Workup of Pulmonary Embolism
Evangelos Giannitsis, Hugo A. Katus

6. Importance of a Patent Foramen Ovale
Annette Geibel, Manfred Zehender, Wolfgang Kasper

7. Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Stable Patient With Suspected Pulmonary Embolism
Arnaud Perrier

8. Contemporary Diagnostic Algorithm for the Hemodynamically Unstable Patient With Suspected Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Stavros V. Konstantinides

II. Treatment and Secondary Prophylaxis of Venous Thromboembolism

9. Heparin Anticoagulation
Graham F. Pineo, Russell D. Hull

10. Thrombolysis
Guy Meyer

11. Management of the Patient With Fulminant Pulmonary Embolism Undergoing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
Fabian Spöhr, Bernd W. Böttiger

12. Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy
Ani C. Anyanwu, Lishan Aklog

13. Interventional Approaches to the Treatment of Acute Massive Pulmonary Embolism
Nils Kucher

14. Vitamin K Antagonists and Novel Oral Anticoagulant
Giancarlo Agnelli, Cecilia Becattini

III. Specific Aspects

15. Hereditary and Acquired Thrombophilia
Hanno Riess

16. Venous Thromboembolism and Cancer
Paolo Prandoni, Anna Falanga, Andrea Piccioli

17. Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy
Simon J. McRae, Shannon M. Bates

18. Venous Thromboembolism in the Era of Air Travel
Frédéric Lapostolle, Jean Catineau, Claude Lapandry, Frédéric Adnet

19. Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension
Irene M. Lang, Walter Klepetko

Avainsanat: Medicine & Public Health, Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Pneumology/Respiratory System