Multidetector computed tomography for acute pulmonary embolism.

By P. Stein, S. Fowler, L. Goodman, A. Gottschalk, C. Hales, R. Hull, K. Leeper, J. Popovich, D. Quinn, T. Sos and 5 more. New England Journal of Medicine, 2006

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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Hepatology, Internal Medicine

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• D-dimer antigen: current concepts and future prospects. (2009, methodology): “Similarly, in the PIOPED II study, 6 out of 15 patients with a high clinical probability of PE and a negative CT had PE.(64) Therefore, further testing in this setting seems”
• Time Trends in Pulmonary Embolism in the United States: Evidence of Overdiagnosis (2010, positive): “Some of these “emboli” may represent false-positive results; the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis II (PIOPED II) trial found the positive predictive value of CTPA to be less than 60% in cases of low clinical suspicion for PE.(35) Increasing indiscriminate use of both CTPA it”
• [2014 ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism]. (2014, positive): “–133 The PIOPED II trial observed a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% for (mainly four-detector) MDCT.(134) PIOPED II also highlighted the influence of clinical probability on the predictive value of MDCT.”
• Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Management of Acute Pulmonary Embolism (2008, background): “–128 Although a sensitivity and specificity for PE above 90% have been reported in an early series,(129) the large recent PIOPED II series observed a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% for MDCT (mainly four-detector).(94) Although the choice of the reference diagnostic criteria for PE in th”
• 2019 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism developed in collaboration with the European Respiratory Society (ERS) (2019, methodology): “It is recommended to accept the diagnosis of PE (without further testing) if CTPA shows a segmental or more proximal filling defect in a patient with intermediate or high clinical probability.(115) I B”
• Ventilation–Perfusion Scintigraphy Is More Sensitive than Multidetector CTPA in Detecting Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Disease as a Treatable Cause of Pulmonary Hypertension (2007, background): “However, a recent large multicenter study has shown these figures to be lower, with a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% for CTPA, with even a lower sensitivity for segmental (68%) and subsegmental (25%) branches (18).”
• ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism (2014, background): “–133 The PIOPED II trial observed a sensitivity of 83% and a specificity of 96% for (mainly four-detector) MDCT.(134) PIOPED II also highlighted the influence of clinical probability on the predictive value of MDCT.”
• Antithrombotic Therapy for VTE Disease: CHEST Guideline and Expert Panel Report. (2012, background): “Two new systematic reviews76,77 and a narrative review83 addressed treatment of isolated distal DVT.”