Midterm Prognosis of Patients With Pulmonary Embolism Receiving Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis or Systemic Thrombolysis: A Nationwide Population-Based Study.

ABSTRACT: Background This study compared the efficacy and safety between catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) and systemic thrombolysis for patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) with midterm follow-up. Methods and Results We conducted a prospective open cohort study by using data from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Research Database for 2001 to 2013. Patients who were first admitted for PE and were treated by either systemic thrombolysis or CDT were included and compared. Inverse probability of treatment weighting, based on the propensity score, was used to mitigate possible selection bias. A total of 145 CDT-treated and 1158 systemic thrombolysis-treated patients with PE were included. The in-hospital mortality rate was significantly lower in the CDT group (12.7% versus 21.4%; odds rati

SUBMITTER: Lin DS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8174309 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature