Clinical manifestations and misdiagnosis factors of pulmonary embolism patients seeking treatment in cardiology
Doudou Yao, Wenjuan Cao, Xiaoyan Liu · 2024
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Description
A clot in the lung often wears the mask of heart disease, and heart wards miss it. Doudou Yao, Wenjuan Cao, and Xiaoyan Liu looked back in 2024 at seventy-four such cases in one heart ward, set against a larger group cleared by scan. Chest tightness, short breath, sweats, and chest pain filled both groups alike. That likeness is the trap: the signs give no clean tell.
Two traits stood out as strong lone flags: a clot in the leg veins and ropey leg veins. Crackles in the lungs, blue lips, fast pulse, low pressure, and two blood marks also tracked with the clot. The team urge heart staff to rescan folk whose picture mixes breath and belly signs. A missed lung clot can kill where a caught one can be cured.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Doudou Yao, Wenjuan Cao, Xiaoyan Liu |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 37 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |