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The Revised Geneva Score increases risk for patients greater than age 65 while the Wells' Score proffers the gestalt of the investigator to place
pulmonary embolism as the leading diagnosis.
Among patients with proximal DVT, about 50% have an associated, usually clinically asymptomatic
pulmonary embolism at lung scan5,7,8.
This was a retrospective cross sectional study carried out in Department of Radiology, Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar from December 2012 to October 2017, on 437 patients coming for CTPA in the mentioned duration with clinically suspected
pulmonary embolism. Age range was 20 to 90 years and patients presented with shortness of breath, nonspecific chest pain and pleuritic chest pain.
The prevalence of
pulmonary embolism among patients suffering from acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Nearly 50,000 people in the UK have a
pulmonary embolism and around 2,500 of them die each year.
Patients with pericarditis classically present with chest pain that increases with deep inspiration, which can mimic the symptoms of
pulmonary embolism. Most cases of pericarditis are due either to a viral infection or are idiopathic and the diagnosis may be difficult to establish clinically if the characteristic physical exam finding of a pericardial rub is not appreciated.