Management of venous thromboembolism: an update

Thrombosis Journal

Table 5 Summary of retrospective studies on 3-month follow-up of patients with sub-segmental pulmonary embolism

Study	Musset et al.	Eyer et al.	Donato et al.	Pena et al.	Mehta et al.	Goy et al.	Ghazvinian et al.
Year of Publication [Ref]	2002 [59]	2005 [60]	2010 [61]	2012 [62]	2014 [63]	2015 [64]	2016 [65]
Method of Detection	SDCT	MDCT	MDCT	MDCT	MDCT	MDCT	V/P SPECT
Number of Patient with Positive CTPA	360	499	1463	724	NA^b	550	NA^b
Number of Patients with SSPE n/N (%)	12 (3.3)	67 (13.4)	93 (6.4)	70 (9.6)	32 (100)	82 (15)	54 (100)
Number of Untreated SSPE (%)	9 (75)	25 (37.3)	22 (22.9)	18 (25.7)	12 (37.5)	39 (47.6)	54 (100)
VTE (%)	0	0	0	0	0	0	4^a

CTPA computed tomography pulmonary angiography, NA not applicable, MDCT multi-detector computed tomography pulmonary angiography, SDCT single-detector computed tomography pulmonary angiography, SSPE sub-segmental pulmonary embolism, V/P SPECT ventilation/perfusion singe photon emission computed tomography, VTE venous thromboembolism
^aTwo patients were diagnosed with a DVT
^bOnly examined patients with SSPE

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