Agreement of right ventricular enlargement assessed by CT angiogram for risk stratifying normotense patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism

I. Neve, M. Barrón, C. Navarro, C. Alvarez, R. Valle, C. Rodriguez, D. Jimenez (Vitoria, Logroño, Barcelona, Oviedo, Cantabria, Sevilla, Madrid, Spain)

Source: Annual Congress 2010 - Pulmonary embolism
Session: Pulmonary embolism
Session type: Thematic Poster Session
Number: 4495
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases

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