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Case Study Of Pulmonary Embolism With Unusual Chief Complaint, Kajel Patel
Case Study Of Pulmonary Embolism With Unusual Chief Complaint, Kajel Patel
Rowan-Virtua Research Day
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a serious diagnosis that needs to be made in the Emergency department (ED). There are different categories of PE ranging from massive to non-massive/sub-segmental. Regardless of the categorization, the patient will need to be placed on anticoagulation. It is important to catch this diagnosis in the ED so further complications do no arise. Here is a case from the ED with a patient coming in with the chief complaint of acute right lower quadrant abdominal pain and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.