Source: International Congress 2019 – Pulmonary embolism: from diagnosis to prognosis and treatment
Disease area: Pulmonary vascular diseases



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A. Zahid (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), A. Azam (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), Q. Abdullah (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), I. Hamigi (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), A. Kodamanchile (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), S. Ekhelikar (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom), M. Ganaie (Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom). Incorporating age adjusted d-dimer limit in place of differential cut-off in YEARS algorithm. Does it help to reduce CTPA burden?. 3639

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