Abstract
1/2007
vol. 1
Pulmonary embolism in a 50-year-old male patient with COPD – a case report
Przew Lek 2007; 1: 68-71
Online publish date: 2007/03/21
The case of a 50-year-old man suffering from COPD with coexistence of pulmonary embolism difficult to diagnose is described. The diagnosis was established after using a variety of specialist diagnostic procedures. On the basis of the presented clinical case a discussion about pulmonary embolism diagnostics and its difficulties is undertaken. Attention is paid to algorithms to assess clinical probability of pulmonary embolism in individual cases.
Keywords
COPD, pulmonary embolism, diagnostics therapy, differential diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
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