TY  - JOUR
AU  - Srivali, Narat 
AU  - Ratanapo, Supawat 
AU  - Suksaranjit, Promporn 
AU  - Cheungpasitporn, Wisit 
AU  - Chongnarungsin, Daych 
PY  - 2012
TI  - State of the Art: Practical Approach for Diagosis of Pulmonary Embolism
JF  - Current Research in Medicine
VL  - 3
IS  - 2
DO  - 10.3844/amjsp.2012.141.146
UR  - https://thescipub.com/abstract/amjsp.2012.141.146
AB  - Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular related death beside myocardial infarction and stroke. Contrary to stroke and myocardial infarction, diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is considered to be much more difficult and complicated compare with the treatment once diagnosis is confirmed. Multiple diagnostic studies including clinical scoring, serum biomarker and diagnostic imaging were developed to help clinician rule in or rule out pulmonary embolism. In this article, we discussed the advantage and disadvantage of these tests and a practical way to choose the right test to diagnose pulmonary embolism.