Complications in Patients with Pulmonary Embolism
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Pulmonology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 March 2025) | Viewed by 1173
Special Issue Editor
Interests: acute pulmonary embolism; hemodynamics; right ventricular function; cardiorespiratory interaction; pulmonary hypertension; anesthesia; intensive care medicine
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Acute pulmonary embolism is a frequent condition with a large impact on patients’ morbidity and mortality, as well as high costs to health care systems. Complex interactions between the right ventricle and the pulmonary circulation cause V/Q mismatch, hypoxia, and increased pulmonary vascular resistance. In more severe cases, this progresses to right ventricular failure and death, making acute pulmonary embolism the third most common cause of cardiovascular death.
Treatment options span from simple, oral anticoagulation to systemic thrombolysis or advanced therapies including surgical embolectomy, ECMO, or catheter-directed therapies. The latter are especially emerging in recent years. However, such interventions may have side effects or procedural complications. And, among survivors, life may not return to previous standards as patients can suffer from reduced cardiopulmonary capacity with dyspnea and fatigue or psychological late effects. Furthermore, a number of patients will develop chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension, a pathogenesis still not well understood, but which leads to chronic affection of the right ventricular to pulmonary artery coupling.
In this Special Issue, we invite worldwide studies complications to patients with pulmonary embolism, including—but not limited to—studies on pulmonary or cardiac injury, procedure-related complication and therapeutic side effects, challenges in the anesthetic and intensive care managements of patients with pulmonary embolism, and long-term physiological, pathological, and psychological complications. All types of manuscripts are welcome, including full-length original papers, reviews, and preclinical investigations on realistic models deciphering pathophysiological complications to pulmonary embolism.
We look forward to your contributions to this Special Issue on pulmonary embolism.
Dr. Mads Dam Lyhne
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- right ventricular injury
- pulmonary vascular injury
- right ventricle to pulmonary artery uncoupling
- cardiopulmonary functional impairment
- ventilatory support/mechanical ventilation
- anesthetic management
- CTEPH development
- bleeding
- procedure-related complications
- psychological distress
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