Mortality Reaches 20% for Hospitalized Patients With High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism

Mortality rates were high among patients with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE), with the worst outcomes in those with hemodynamic collapse, according to a retrospective analysis of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT) Consortium Registry.

In nearly 5,800 patients, in-hospital mortality occurred over five times more frequently among those with high-risk PE compared with those with intermediate-risk PE (20.6% vs 3.7%, P
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