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Rapid and accurate diagnosis of pulmonary embolism will improve survival and quality of life because treatment decreases mortality and the likelihood that thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension or the post-thrombotic syndrome will develop. The paramount challenge is to consider pulmonary embolism as a diagnostic possibility and therefore order the appropriate diagnostic tests and institute timely and effective therapy.

Computed tomographic (CT) scanning of the chest has revolutionized our diagnostic approach to suspected pulmonary embolism. Ventilation–perfusion lung scanning used to be the pivotal imaging test, but the lung scan was problematic because it rarely provided a definitive "high probability" or "normal" result. Its . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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From the Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston.

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