Barometric pressure and the incidence of pulmonary embolism

MERAL M., MİRİCİ N. A., ASLAN Ş., AKGÜN M., KAYNAR H., Saglam L., ...Daha Fazla

CHEST, cilt.128, sa.4, ss.2190-2194, 2005 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 128 Sayı: 4
  • Basım Tarihi: 2005
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1378/chest.128.4.2190
  • Dergi Adı: CHEST
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.2190-2194
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: atmospheric pressure, helical CT, predisposing factor, pulmonary embolism, DEEP-VEIN THROMBOSIS, VENOUS THROMBOEMBOLIC DISEASE, HELICAL COMPUTED-TOMOGRAPHY, NEGATIVE SPIRAL CT, SEASONAL-VARIATION, PERFORMANCE, SCINTIGRAPHY
  • Atatürk Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

Objectives: Reports in the literature suggest that weather changes may play a role in venous thrombotic disease. An increase in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) during the spring season led us to investigate the relationship between atmospheric pressure (AP) and the incidence of PE, as diagnosed in most of the patients by helical CT angiography, and in the minority of patients by conventional pulmonary angiography and lung scanning.