Archive | Pulmonary Embolism

Recently the importance of pulmonary embolism as a relatively common cause of death has become more widely appreciated, despite gross underestimation of this problem by the prevalent statistics. Pulmonary embolism is quite common, but often unrecognised clinically which suddenly presents without much warning. Incidence: The true incidence of pulmonary embolism is unknown and estimates of its frequency vary, depending on [...]