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Pulmonary Vascular Disease

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How would you manage symptomatic, bilateral subsegmental PE developed after long air travel?

The patient takes frequent flights for their job, with no prior history of VTE, and has already been taking measures for prevention including frequent...

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How do you follow pulmonary embolism patients who have completed anticoagulation?

1 Answer available

When do you screen for pulmonary hypertension in ILD patients?

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Would you restart prophylactic anticoagulation in a patient with a history of unprovoked PE who received short term anticoagulation with a prior physician?

E.g. low dose DOAC

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How frequently do you monitor LFTs and CBC after initiating endothelin receptor antagonists?

Is there a difference in monitoring frequency for legacy drugs like bosentan vs newer agents (macitentan, ambrisentan)?

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Are there patients who can forgo anticoagulation with asymptomatic, incidentally discovered subsegmental pulmonary embolism?

If there are a low-risk patients who can be monitored, how would you do so? If unprovoked, would you consider stopping anticoagulation?

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Papers discussed in this category

AJR Am J Roentgenol,

Overdiagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism by Pulmonary CT Angiography.

Cochrane Database Syst Rev, 2021 Mar 26

Endothelin receptor antagonists for pulmonary arterial hypertension.

Blood Adv,

American Society of Hematology 2020 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: treatment of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism.

CMAJ,

Identifying unprovoked thromboembolism patients at low risk for recurrence who can discontinue anticoagulant therapy.

N Engl J Med, 2021 Jan 13

Inhaled Treprostinil in Pulmonary Hypertension Due to Interstitial Lung Disease.

Journal of general internal medicine, 2007-01

Air travel and venous thromboembolism: a systematic review.

Blood advances, 2018-11-27

American Society of Hematology 2018 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: prophylaxis for hospitalized and nonhospitalized medical patients.

Blood advances, 2023 Nov 28

American Society of Hematology 2023 guidelines for management of venous thromboembolism: thrombophilia testing.

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