Fortnightly review : the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism
- 8 February 1997
- Vol. 314 (7078) , 425
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.314.7078.425
Abstract
How do they cope? We do not know for sure, but in most cases treatment is probably withheld.3 When an uncertain diagnosis is balanced against the perceived risks and inconveniences of anticoagulant treatment concerns about anticoagulants are likely to win over any concerns over dying of pulmonary embolism. But how fatal is pulmonary embolism?Keywords
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