Typical errors pulmonary artery verification on the example of a clinical case

Abstract

The difficulties of verification of pulmonary embolism (PE) are well known and have not been overcome to date, despite significant progress in approaches to managing patients with this pathology over the past 1015 years. Due to the nonspecific clinical picture, cases of a long and difficult journey to this diagnosis are not exclusive. In large studies have shown that the most frequent symptom of pulmonary embolism shortness of breath. However, it is not always associated with doctors of different specialties with the need to exclude this diagnosis, purposefully collect anamnesis, identify risk factors. Modern low-dose oral contraceptives are considered quite prosperous in terms of the development of thrombotic complications and cause a slight (1020%) increase in fibrinogen concentration, factors VII, VIII and X, as well as a decrease in the content of active protein S by 1020%. But in the case of the presence of diseases and conditions that increase the risk of venous embolism, this effect may be sufficient for the realization of life-threatening pulmonary embolism. In this regard, it is important to provide a combined effect on the prognosis of the pathology of the patients and the chosen method of contraception.

Keywords

• pulmonary embolism
• oral contraceptives
• risk factors for pulmonary embolism