Clinical and Hemodynamic Predictors of Intensive Care Unit Mortality in Critically Ill Patients with Acute Pulmonary Embolism: A Retrospective Cohort Study
Keywords:
Acute pulmonary embolism, intensive care unit, right ventricular dysfunction, obstructive shock, cardiac troponin, lactate, mortality predictors.Abstract
Acute pulmonary embolism (PE) presentingwith hemodynamic instability or severe rightventricular (RV) failure carries high intensivecare unit (ICU) mortality. This retrospective cohort study evaluated clinical, biochemical,and echocardiographic predictors of all-causeICU mortality in critically
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