Pulmonary embolism with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Ruohan Yang; Guiqing Liu; Chaosheng Deng

doi:10.1016/j.cdtm.2021.04.001

Pulmonary embolism with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Chronic Dis Transl Med. 2021 Jun 24;7(3):149-156. doi: 10.1016/j.cdtm.2021.04.001. eCollection 2021 Sep.

Authors

Ruohan Yang¹, Guiqing Liu², Chaosheng Deng¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Respiratory Disease, Fujian Medical University, Division of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, First Affiliated Hospital of Fujian Medical University, Fuzhou, Fujian, 350005, China.
² The Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 0NN, United Kingdom.

Abstract

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a common, preventable, and treatable disease. The incidence of COPD is growing annually in China, and it is a significant and growing public health burden. Multivariate analysis showed that COPD was one of the independent risk factors for the occurrence of pulmonary embolism (PE), and the incidence of PE was significantly higher in COPD patients than in normal subjects. However, PE is often overlooked in patients with acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD) because there are many similarities in clinical symptoms between PE and AECOPD, which are difficult to distinguish, resulting in the failure of timely treatment and poor prognosis. Therefore, it is of great significance to understand the clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and treatment of COPD combined with PE for making a more accurate diagnosis, providing timely and effective treatment, and improving the prognosis of such patients.

Keywords: Acute exacerbation; Chronic obstructive; Pulmonary disease; Pulmonary embolism.

Publication types

Review