Pulmonary embolism in a 50-year-old male patient with COPD – a case report

Magdalena Kostrzewska

ISSN: 1505-8409

Przewodnik Lekarza/Guide for GPs Supplement

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1/2007
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Pulmonary embolism in a 50-year-old male patient with COPD – a case report

Magdalena Kostrzewska

Przew Lek 2007; 1: 68-71

Online publish date: 2007/03/21

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The case of a 50-year-old man suffering from COPD with coexistence of pulmonary embolism difficult to diagnose is described. The diagnosis was established after using a variety of specialist diagnostic procedures. On the basis of the presented clinical case a discussion about pulmonary embolism diagnostics and its difficulties is undertaken. Attention is paid to algorithms to assess clinical probability of pulmonary embolism in individual cases.

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Pulmonary embolism in a 50-year-old male patient with COPD – a case report

Magdalena Kostrzewska

COPD, pulmonary embolism, diagnostics therapy, differential diagnosis of pulmonary embolism