Patient stories – “I spent one week at hospital thinking that my life was over and that I would not come out alive” David 39 years old
“One year of vacations at hell. That’s how I remember now year 2015-2016 when I was detected and diagnosed from a massive bilateral thromboembolism. This is something I will never forget. Even though now I feel relieved from many concerns and distress, I have suffered...
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
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...