Clinical presentations and outcomes in pulmonary embolism patients with cancer
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Clinical presentations and outcomes in pulmonary embolism patients with cancer Cherry Au1 · Ena Gupta2,3 · Phue Khaing2 · Joseph Dibello1 · Todd Chengsupanimit1 · Edith P. Mitchell4 · Frances Mae West2 · Michael Baram2 · Bharat K. Awsare2 · Gregory C. Kane2 Accepted: 26 September 2020 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract To study whether a diagnosis of cancer affects the clinical presentation and outcomes of patients with pulmonary embolism (PE). A retrospective analysis was performed of all consecutive patients diagnosed with PE on a computed tomography scan from 2014 to 2016 at an urban tertiary-referral medical center. Baseline characteristics, treatment decisions, and mortality data were compared between study subjects with and without a known diagnosis of active cancer. There were 581 subjects, of which 187 (33.0%) had a diagnosis of cancer. On average, cancer subjects tended to be older (64.8 vs. 58.5 years, p
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