Pulmonary Embolism

What you will learn

Watch this chapter to better understand pulmonary embolism (PE) and its sequels. Here you will learn when to suspect PE, how to diagnose it, which pathologies can mimic PE, what impacts prognosis and how echocardiography can help you to stratify patients into high and low risk groups. We will present several cases that will demonstrate the typical echocardiographic features of acute pressure overload.