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Syncope as a presentation of acute pulmonary embolism

Overview of attention for article published in Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, June 2016
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Title
Syncope as a presentation of acute pulmonary embolism
Published in
Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management, June 2016
DOI 10.2147/tcrm.s105722
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Bülent Altınsoy, Fatma Erboy, Hakan Tanrıverdi, Fırat Uygur, Tacettin Örnek, Figen Atalay, Meltem Tor

Abstract

Syncope is an atypical presentation for acute pulmonary embolism (APE). There are conflicting data concerning syncope and prognosis of APE. One hundred and seventy-nine consecutive patients aged 22-96 years (median, 68 years) with APE were retrospectively enrolled in the study. Prevalence of syncope was 13% (n=23) at the time of presentation. Compared to patients without syncope, those with syncope had a higher rate of central embolism (83% vs 43%, respectively, P=0.002), right ventricular dysfunction (91% vs 68%, P=0.021), and troponin positivity (80% vs 39%, P=0.001) but not 30-day mortality (13% vs 10%, P=0.716). Multivariate analysis showed that central localization (odds ratio: 9.08) and cardiac troponin positivity (odds ratio: 4.67) were the independent correlates of the presence of syncope in the patients with APE. Frequency of cardiopulmonary disease was lower, and duration from symptom onset to hospital admission was shorter in patients with syncope (P=0.138 and 0.118, respectively), although not significant. Syncope most likely represents an intermediate condition between massive APE and hypotension. In APE patients with syncope, the prognosis seems to depend on the underlying pathology, the patient's age, comorbidities and duration from symptom onset to hospital admission, and the use of thrombolytic therapy.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Other 5 16%
Student > Master 4 13%
Student > Bachelor 4 13%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 9%
Professor 3 9%
Other 8 25%
Unknown 5 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 23 72%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 1 3%
Social Sciences 1 3%
Engineering 1 3%
Unknown 6 19%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 11. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 January 2022.
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#3,343,071
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#5
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