METHOD FOR ASSESSING PROBABILITY OF LETHAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS SUFFERING FROM PULMONARY ARTERY THROMBOEMBOLIA AND STAYING IN HOSPITAL

摘要

FIELD: medicine.SUBSTANCE: method involves collecting past medical history and performing echocardiography in patients aged 18 years and older and staying in hospital. That takes into consideration: a schedule; existence of a pulmonary diseases; existence of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI); right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) 36 mm Hg according to EchoCG findings; existence of a complex of symptoms of the pulmonary heart; existence of right auricular (RA) dilatation; existence of obesity; existence of pericardial fluid caused other than an infectious process; existence of right ventricular (RV) dilatation; left ventricular post-infarction cardiosclerosis (PICS). The derived data are used to assess a probability of the lethal outcome in the patients developing PATE by an original regression equation. If the calculated value is 0.55, the high probability of the lethal outcome in the patient is stated.EFFECT: method enables specifying a group of patients in need of the most extensive possible integrated preventive activities with respect to pulmonary artery thromboembolia to avoid the lethal outcome if this disease develops.3 tbl, 2 ex