Short-term mortality of patients with saddle pulmonary embolism: A single-center study

Objective: Although hemodynamic instability has been identified as the most established mortality predictor in acute pulmonary embolism (PE), the debate is still open about the prognostic significance of saddle pulmonary embolism (SPE). This study determined the in-hospital mortality rate of SPE patients diagnosed via computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) and compared these cases with non-SPE patients. Methods: The presence of SPE observed on CTPA was used to classify 492 consecutive patients into SPE and non-SPE groups. Different features were compared between the 2 groups, and independent predictors of in-hospital mortality in acute PE were identified. Results: A total of 70 patients (14.2%) had SPE. In univariate analysis, the SPE group was seen to have a higher in-hospital mortality rate, as well as a lower oxygen saturation level and systolic and diastolic blood pressure in comparison with the non-SPE group (all p values <0.005). Multivariate analysis revealed that SPE was an independent predictor of in-hospital mortality in acute PE patients (Odds ratio: 9.21, 95% confidence interval: 3.40-24.89; p value <0.001). Conclusion: The results of this study indicated that SPE had a statistically significant importance in predicting in-hospital mortality and adverse events in PE patients. These findings were not consistent with many prior studies..

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2019

Erschienen:

2019

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:47

Enthalten in:

Türk Kardiyoloji Derneği Arşivi - 47(2019), 4, Seite 273-280

Sprache:

Englisch ; Türkisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Reza Hajizadeh [VerfasserIn]
Samad Ghaffari [VerfasserIn]
Hamid Rajebi [VerfasserIn]
Hadiseh Kavandi [VerfasserIn]
Elnaz Javanshir [VerfasserIn]
Golshan Fahimi [VerfasserIn]
Sahar Ghodratizadeh [VerfasserIn]

Links:

doi.org [kostenfrei]
doaj.org [kostenfrei]
jag.journalagent.com [kostenfrei]
Journal toc [kostenfrei]

Themen:

Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
In-hospital mortality
Internal medicine
Medicine
Mortality.
Prognosis
R
Saddle pulmonary embolism

doi:

10.5543/tkda.2019.77292

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

DOAJ061701750