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Pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the pulmonary emergent disease which hardly diagnosed, high mortality rates, and frequently seen in emergency department. PE cases are seen many different clinical symptoms. Most common symptoms are sudden started dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, coughing, hemoptysis, tachypnea, and tachycardia. Syncope is rarely first referring symptom of the PE cases, however, in massif PE cases syncope is more frequently seem and unless urgent diagnosis and treatment, mortality rates is quite high. Therefore, in differential diagnosis of the syncope patients PE must keep in mind. In this study, five massive PE cases were presented who admitted to emergency service with syncope and vertigo symptoms.
Field : Sağlık Bilimleri
Journal Type : Uluslararası
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