Patient stories – “You have been very lucky, doctors told me”

Patient stories – “You have been very lucky, doctors told me”

2015 ended up with discomfort in the left leg calf for Pere. Pere, a 45 year old man very used to the mountain and physical work, had already suffered from pain in the knee before, “although never before was so intense”, he remembers. Days passed by and by mid-January...
Air pollution and pulmonary embolism

Air pollution and pulmonary embolism

RIETE physicians group show that high concentrations of nitrogen dioxide and ozone involved in the recurrence of PE   Even though pulmonary embolism (PE) is a vascular disease of the airways, to date there were very few studies regarding the relationship that...
Decrease of mortality due to pulmonary embolism

Decrease of mortality due to pulmonary embolism

Mortality due to pulmonary embolism has decreased over the last years, according to a study of the RIETE group, which has been recently published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC). An article that Valentí Fuster, cardiologist at Mount Sinai...