UMEM Educational Pearls

Category: Vascular

Title: DVT and Asymptomatic Pulmonary Embolism

Keywords: DVT, Pulmonary Embolism (PubMed Search)

Posted: 4/7/2008 by Rob Rogers, MD (Updated: 4/20/2024)
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DVT and Asymptomatic Pulmonary Embolism

A few important pearls about PE:

Remeber that up to 50% of patients with proven DVT will have asymptomatic PE at the time of presentation
Large, even central PE may be asymptomtic
Normal vital signs DO NOT rule out PE

Journal of Thrombosis and Hemostasis and Chest-2006, 2007