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Transthoracic Echocardiography for Diagnosing Pulmonary Embolism: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

M. Fields, Joshua Davis, Lily A Girson, A. Au, Jacqueline Potts, C. Morgan, I. Vetter, L. A. Riesenberg

2017.7.1JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY

DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2017.03.004

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Overall, echocardiography should not be used alone as test to rule out pulmonary embolism, but can guide management, especially in scenarios where confirmatory studies are either not available (resource‐limited settings) or feasible (critically ill patients).

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FIELDS, M., et al. Transthoracic echocardiography for diagnosing pulmonary embolism: A systematic review and meta‐analysis. JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, 2017, 30: 714–723.e4.