Pulmonary Embolism

Pathway for the diagnosis and management of Pulmonary Embolism.- Epidemiology, pathophysiology and predisposing factors of pulmonary embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis.- Non-Imaging Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.- Imaging modalities in PE: echocardiography.- Imaging Modalities in Venous-thromboembolism: Ultrasound for Lower Extremity Deep Venous  Thrombosis.- Imaging modalities in PE.- Ventilation/Perfusion Scintigraphy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.- Imaging modalities in PE: Pulmonary angiography.- Integrating clinical, imaging and laboratory data to assess risk and to Guide Treatment in PE.- Management of the High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism in the acute phase – Respiratory, Hemodynamic and Mechanical Support.- Pharmacologic treatment in Pulmonary Embolism.- Catheter Directed Thrombolytic Therapy in Pulmonary Embolism.- Surgical Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- Pulmonary Embolism Response Team: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improve Pulmonary Embolism Management.- Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy and the postpartum period.- Pulmonary embolism and cancer patients.- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.- Pulmonary Embolism in the COVID 19.- Travel related Venous Thromboembolism.- Illustrative cases of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and management of PE.- Pulmonary Embolism: Information for the patient and family.

This book is a comprehensive review of pulmonary embolism (PE) which, with deep vein thrombosis, is assigned to the term venous thromboembolism (VTE) and currently the third most frequent acute cardiovascular syndrome globally. In the past decade we have seen a remarkable improvement in new diagnostic tools as well as novel therapeutic options to manage patients with VTE and this book provides a thorough clinical discussion of the diagnosis and management of these patients.

Pulmonary Embolism presents a comprehensive review of all aspects of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, risk assessment and therapeutic options to manage the patient with PE. To aid healthcare providers caring for patients with acute PE, it encapsulates a novel, comprehensive, yet simple, pathway for the management of patients with PE, which can be used in many health care systems around the globe. This pathway is at the core of the book and all chapters are related to this unique algorithm.

Dr. Eyal Herzog serves as the Director of the Department of Cardiology at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Herzog is a Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City where until 2019 he was the director of both the cardiac care unit and the echocardiography laboratories at Mount Sinai Saint Luke’s Hospital.

Dr. Herzog had published extensively in the fields of Cardiology, Critical Care Cardiology and Echocardiography. He had authored six medical books and his books “The Cardiac Care survival guide“ and “Herzog’s  CCU book” where best sellers when they were published in 2012 and 2017 respectively. He is internationally known as an exceptional teacher and had received numerous teaching awards.