Pulmonary angiography The historical gold standard for diagnosis of pulmonary embolism, it is reserved for patients where CT pulmonary angiography or V/Q scans are non-diagnostic. Acute massive pulmonary embolism after cardiac surgery is very rare. In patients without an identifiable risk factor (unprovoked pulmonary embolism), a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of 18 studies (RCTs and observational studies) evaluated the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism in patients with a first unprovoked venous thromboembolism.74 In total, 7515 patients were included, and all completed at least three months’ anticoagulation before discontinuing therapy. The use of thrombolytic therapy in selected hemodynamically stable patients with high risk features has been better studied in clinical trials. Duration of anticoagulation should be determined after weighing the risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism against the risk of bleeding, along with the associated morbidity and mortality of each outcome. The largest RCT to evaluate the benefit of thrombolysis in hemodynamically stable patients was the Pulmonary Embolism Thrombolysis (PEITHO) trial, which randomized 1005 patients with right ventricular dysfunction on either CTPA or echocardiogram or an elevated troponin to receive thrombolysis (tenecteplase) in addition to unfractionated heparin, compared with unfractionated heparin alone.96 This study showed a benefit in the study’s composite primary outcome of death or hemodynamic decompensation within seven days (odds ratio 0.44, 0.23 to 0.87; P=0.02) but at a significant cost of major bleeding (major extracranial bleeding: odds ratio 5.55, 2.3 to 13.39; P<0.001). The ISTH Scientific Subcommittee suggests evaluating patients’ risk for recurrent venous thromboembolism.14 In patients with less than 5% risk at one year or less than 15% at five years, the recommendation is to stop anticoagulation. Limitations to this rule include the misclassification of women at high and low risk of recurrent venous thromboembolism risk with use of non-VIDAS d-Dimer assays (bioMérieux, Marcy L’Etoile, France),142 and D-dimer testing was done on anticoagulation at six months after the initial venous thromboembolism event. MAF guided the writing of the full manuscript. 2020 Mar;34(2):549-573. doi: 10.1111/jvim.15725. 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Notably, CARAVGGIO excluded patients with either primary or metastatic central nervous system disease and acute leukemia. No difference in major bleeding, the primary safety outcome, was observed (hazard ratio 0.82, 0.40 to 1.69).118. Vital registration data indicate that women aged 15-55 and over 80 years have an excess pulmonary embolism related mortality compared with men.20 Although increased incidence of pulmonary embolism in women among both of these age groups may be contributing to this, whether true sex and/or gender differences exist in case fatality rates remains to determined. Other prognostic markers have been proposed for risk stratification, including B-type natriuretic peptide and N-terminal pro-b-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP). In this study, no patients with low or moderate clinical probability score had a recurrent venous thromboembolism event in the three months of study follow-up (0%, 95% confidence interval 0.00% to 0.29%) and the dichotomized D-dimer cut-off strategy reduced the use of diagnostic imaging by 17.6% (15.9% to 19.2%) compared with the reanalysis of results with a single 500 ng/mL cut-off. 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Fifty per cent of venous thromboembolism events are associated with a transient risk factor, such as recent surgery or hospital admission for medical illness, 20% are associated with cancer, and the remainder are associated with minor or no risk factors and are thus classified as unprovoked.23Box 1 summarizes common risk factors for venous thromboembolism.1924 Despite comprehensive literature on the epidemiology of venous thromboembolism and its risk factors, public awareness is poor compared with other health conditions with comparable incidence. Chronic pulmonary embolism. If a pulmonary embolus is large, the case is often described as massive PE. DOACs also have significantly fewer major bleeding events compared with VKAs (table 4).67817 Limitations of these trials include heterogeneous populations and lack of direct comparisons between DOACs. We used Ovid Medline and PubMed for dedicated search strategies of selected topics thought not to be included in the above search. 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