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Acute Spinal Cord Injury Complicating With Pulmonary Embolism: A Casereport, Ssu-Yuan Chen, Chun-Liang Wu, Yen-Ho Wang, Juey-Jen Hwang, Jin-Shin Lai, I-Nan Lien

Rehabilitation Practice and Science

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening disease with variable manifestations and thus early diagnosis is difficult among the spinal cord injury (SCI) patients. There are still no clinical reports or statistical data about the PE in SCI patients in Taiwan. However, the incidence of PE in SCI patients was higher than that in general population according to the reports in western countries, and early prevention, diagnosis and treatment were documented to reduce the morbidity and mortality. So the doctor should keep alert to the possible PE in the SCI patients especially when there are new-onset symptoms or signs. Here we …