Pulmonary embolism: Epidemiology and registries - 07/12/15

Doi : 10.1016/j.lpm.2015.10.006

Manuel Monreal ^1,^⁎ , Isabelle Mahé ², Alessandra Bura-Riviere ³, Paolo Prandoni ⁴, Peter Verhamme ⁵, Benjamin Brenner ⁶, Phil S. Wells ⁷, Pierpaolo Di Micco ⁸, Laurent Bertoletti ⁹
¹ Universidad Católica de Murcia, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol de Badalona, department of internal medicine, Spain
² AP–HP, university Paris 7, hôpital Louis-Mourier, department of internal medicine, 92700 Colombes, France
³ Hôpital de Rangueil, department of vascular medicine, 33000 Toulouse, France
⁴ University of Padua, department of clinical medicine, Padua, Italy
⁵ University of Leuven, vascular medicine and haemostasis, Leuven, Belgium
⁶ Rambam health care campus, department of haematology and bone marrow transplantation, Haifa, Israel
⁷ University of Ottawa, Ottawa hospital research institute, department of medicine, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
⁸ Ospedale Buonconsiglio Fatebenefratelli, department of internal medicine and emergency room, Naples, Italy
⁹ CHU de Saint-Étienne, hôpital Nord, Department of medicine and therapeutics, 63000 Saint-Étienne, France

^⁎Manuel Monreal, Hospital Universitario Germans Trias i Pujol, Servicio de Medicina Interna, 08916 Badalona (Barcelona), Spain.

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Summary

Real-life data is important in understanding the needs of patients in routine clinical practice, particularly owing to the fact that almost a quarter of patients with venous thromoboembolism (VTE) have at least one exclusion criterion preventing their recruitment into randomized clinical trials. The Registro Informatizado de Enfermedad Trombo Embólica (RIETE) registry is an ongoing, international, multicentre, prospective registry of consecutive patients presenting with acute VTE. In this chapter, we summarized some of the most relevant data concerning the epidemiology of VTE in the RIETE registry.

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