2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European respiratory society (ERS): The Task Force for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)

Stavros V. Konstantinides*, Guy Meyer, Hector Bueno, Nazzareno Galié, J. Simon R. Gibbs, Walter Ageno, Stefan Agewall, Ana G. Almeida, Felicita Andreotti, Emanuele Barbato, Andreas Baumbach, Farzin Beygui, Jørn Carlsen, Marco De Carlo, Marion Delcroix, Pilar Escribano Subias, Sean Gaine, Samuel Z. Goldhaber, Deepa Gopalan, Gilbert HabibDavid Jenkins, Barbro Kjellström, Mitja Lainscak, Geraldine Lee, Grégoire Le Gal, Emmanuel Messas, Joao Morais, Massimo Francesco Piepoli, Susanna Price, Aldo Salvi, Olivier Sanchez, Stefan Stortecky, Matthias Thielmann, Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, Cecilia Becattini, Héctor Bueno, Geert Jan Geersing, Veli Pekka Harjola, Menno V. Huisman, Marc Humbert, Catriona Sian Jennings, David Jiménez, Nils Kucher, Irene Marthe Lang, Mareike Lankeit, Roberto Lorusso, Lucia Mazzolai, Nicolas Meneveau, Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Paolo Prandoni, Piotr Pruszczyk, Marc Righini, Adam Torbicki, Eric Van Belle, José Luis Zamorano, Stephan Windecker, Victor Aboyans, Colin Baigent, Jean Philippe Collet, Veronica Dean, Victoria Delgado, Donna Fitzsimons, Chris P. Gale, Diederick E. Grobbee, Gerhard Hindricks, Bernard Iung, Peter Jüni, Hugo A. Katus, Ulf Landmesser, Christophe Leclercq, Maddalena Lettino, Basil S. Lewis, Bela Merkely, Christian Mueller, Steffen E. Petersen, Anna Sonia Petronio, Dimitrios J. Richter, Marco Roffi, Evgeny Shlyakhto, Iain A. Simpson, Miguel Sousa-Uva, Rhian M. Touyz, Naima Hammoudi, Hamlet Hayrapetyan, Julia Mascherbauer, Firdovsi Ibrahimov, Oleg Polonetsky, Patrizio Lancellotti, Mariya Tokmakova, Bosko Skoric, Ioannis Michaloliakos, Martin Hutyra, Søren Mellemkjaer, Mostafa Mansour, Julia Reinmets, Pertti Jääskeläinen, Denis Angoulvant, Johann Bauersachs, George Giannakoulas, Endre Zima, Carmine Dario Vizza, Akhmetzhan Sugraliyev, Ibadete Bytyçi, Aija Maca, Egle Ereminiene, Steve Huijnen, Robert Xuereb, Nadejda Diaconu, Nebojsa Bulatovic, Ilyasse Asfalou, Marijan Bosevski, Sigrun Halvorsen, Bozena Sobkowicz, Daniel Ferreira, Antoniu Octavian Petris, Olga Moiseeva, Marco Zavatta, Slobodan Obradovic, Iveta Šimkova, Peter Radsel, Borja Ibanez, Gerhard Wikström, Drahomir Aujesky, Cihangir Kaymaz, Alexander Parkhomenko, Joanna Pepke-Zaba

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Abstract

Guidelines summarize and evaluate available evidence with the aim of assisting health professionals in proposing the best management strategies for an individual patient with a given condition. Guidelines and their recommendations should facilitate decision making of health professionals in their daily practice. However, the final decisions concerning an individual patient must be made by the responsible health professional(s) in consultation with the patient and caregiver as appropriate.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)543-603
Number of pages61
JournalEuropean heart journal
Volume41
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jan 2020

Keywords

  • Anticoagulation
  • Biomarkers
  • Diagnosis
  • Dyspnoea
  • Echocardiography
  • Embolectomy
  • Guidelines
  • Heart failure
  • Pregnancy
  • Pulmonary embolism
  • Right ventricle
  • Risk assessment
  • Shock
  • Thrombolysis
  • Treatment
  • Venous thromboembolism
  • Venous thrombosis
  • risk assessment
  • treatment
  • echocardiography
  • anticoagulation
  • pulmonary embolism
  • heart failure
  • embolectomy
  • biomarkers
  • shock
  • pregnancy
  • diagnosis
  • dyspnoea
  • right ventricle
  • venous thromboembolism
  • thrombolysis
  • venous thrombosis

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