Focus of the Issue

This issue of Clinics in Chest Medicine, edited by Drs. Peter Marshall and Wassim Fares, focuses on Pulmonary Embolism, with topics including:

• Clinical Probability Tools for DVT, PE, & Bleeding
• Prevention of DVTs and Pulmonary Emboli: General Measures and High-Risk Populations
• Diagnosis of DVTs and PEs: New Imaging Tools and Modalities
• Perfusion Defects Misdiagnosed as Pulmonary Emboli
• The Vicious Cycle of Hypercoagulability and Pulmonary Hypertension
• VTE in Special Populations
• Pregnancy and Thrombo-embolic Disease
• Challenges and Changes to the Management of PE in the Emergency Department
• The Value of Bedside Echocardiogram in the Setting of Acute & Chronic Pulmonary Embolism
• Management of Low-Risk PE
• Update on the “Novel” and Direct Oral Anticoagulants
• Risk Stratification: Definitive/Aggressive Treatment of Hemodynamically Stable but Intermediate Risk Patients
• Pulmonary Embolism Response Team (PERT)
• Surgical and Other Interventions for DVTs
• IVC Filters
• Catheter-Based Therapies of Pulmonary Emboli
• Surgical-Based Therapies for PEs
• Chronic Thrombo-embolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH)