A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot that has developed elsewhere in your body (often in your arm or leg) travels through your bloodstream to your lungs and becomes stuck in a blood vessel.

Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the Western world. Because of the low specificity and sensitivity of the d-dimer test, all pregnant women with suspected pulmonary ...

All patients with positive D-dimer test, considered at high risk, were prescribed apixaban 2.5 mg twice daily. The study was prematurely interrupted in November 2021 due to an excess of recurrences of ...