Publication Date
6-1-2019
Journal
The Texas Heart Institute Journal
DOI
10.14503/THIJ-18-6751
PMID
31708697
Publication Date(s)
June 2019
Language
English
PMCID
PMC6827469
PubMedCentral® Posted Date
6-1-2019
PubMedCentral® Full Text Version
Post-Print
Published Open-Access
yes
Keywords
Female, Humans, Incidence, Male, Middle Aged, Postoperative Complications, Pulmonary Embolism, Survival Rate, Thrombectomy, Treatment Outcome, United States
Copyright
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Abstract
Treatments for pulmonary embolism are numerous and often complex. Current data on surgical thrombectomy are important but are not readily available. We studied the National Inpatient Sample to evaluate trends in the performance rates and outcomes of surgical thrombectomy in the United States from 2003 through 2014. We think that our findings have meaningful application to the triage and risk stratification of patients who have hemodynamically significant pulmonary embolism.