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...Patient stories – “Don’t worry, you don’t have anything. Just make sure you rest your arm and that’s it”
“Don’t worry, you don’t have anything. Just make sure you rest your arm and that’s it”. “Oh, no, this has nothing to do with me”. These were the reactions of the first doctors Laura visited so they could tell her what was happening in her right arm. Fall 2012. Laura...
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...
Bayer judgment for the prothrombotic effects of Yasmin contraceptive
Two-thirds of women with venous thromboembolism experience the disease due exclusively to the use of contraception The side effects of Yasmin-type oral contraceptives (including Yasminelle and Yaz) brought Bayer Pharmaceuticals to court at the end of 2015. Felicitas...