2025/04/16 by Liliana Mazza, Mariagiovanna Cozza, Francesca Flavia Rossi +7 · 1 voice
Medicine · #Acute Ischemic Stroke Management #Atrial Fibrillation Management and Outcomes #Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
paper · doi:10.4081/gc.2025.13427
openalex publication_date 2025/04/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/15
Pulmonary embolism (PE) represents one of the main causes of acute respiratory failure in geriatric patients. In the older population, critical issues in PE management are multiple: reduced specificity of clinical signs and symptoms (with symptoms common to other pathologies, such as chest pain, dyspnea, and tachypnea), frequent late diagnosis (delay in diagnosis or misdiagnosis), the difficulty in the diagnostic algorithm, the need for a rapid prognostic assessment, and consequent timely treatment. Optimal PE management is patient-centered, includes all treatment options available, and aims at optimizing clinical outcomes in the short, medium, and long term with a multidisciplinary approach.