Treatment of Pulmonary Embolic Disease

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Abstract
THE evidence continues to accumulate that pulmonary embolic disease represents a major cause of death, especially among patients in hospitals. Smith, Dexter and Dammin,1 in autopsy studies at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, Boston, found pulmonary embolism to be the single most common cause of death. Freiman2 found evidence of old or recent pulmonary emboli in 64 per cent of a group of consecutive patients autopsied at the Beth Israel Hospital, Boston. Morrell, Truelove and Barr,3 impressed by an apparent fivefold increase in the number of patients given the diagnosis of pulmonary emboli at the United Oxford Hospitals in the . . .