Frequency of Diagnostic Symptomatic Pulmonary Embolism's in Patients Hospitalized for Clinical Exacerbation of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)

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• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive 4,131
• Pulmonary Embolism 739

Keywords

• COPD Exacerbation
• Pulmonary embolism
• Standardized and consensus diagnostic strategy

Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

4,131 studies on the registry are indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive; 697 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 750 is above the median of 70 across 2,926 interventional studies indexed under Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive.

Lead sponsor

University Hospital, Brest is the lead sponsor of 594 studies on the registry; 135 are open to participants now.

Study arms

• Other
  PEP

  No drug and no placebo were used in this study. For all the patients who participated at the study PEP, only following exams must be performed: a clinical probability score (revised Geneva score), plasma D-dimer assay and if necessary, a chest multidetector-row CT angiography and venous ultrasound of the lower limbs

  Other: PEP

Interventions

• OtherPEP

  Also known as: No drug and no placebo were used in this study. For all the patients who participated at the study PEP, only exams must be performed;

Primary outcomes

1. Frequency of pulmonary embolism in patients hospitalized for a clinical exacerbation of COPD.

   Time frame: 27 months

Secondary outcomes

1. The rate of pulmonary embolism diagnosed during the 3 month follow-up in patients whom pulmonary embolism was initially excluded when they've been included in the study

   Time frame: 27 months

Publications

• Couturaud F, Bertoletti L, Pastre J, Roy PM, Le Mao R, Gagnadoux F, Paleiron N, Schmidt J, Sanchez O, De Magalhaes E, Kamara M, Hoffmann C, Bressollette L, Nonent M, Tromeur C, Salaun PY, Barillot S, Gatineau F, Mismetti P, Girard P, Lacut K, Lemarie CA, Meyer G, Leroyer C; PEP Investigators. Prevalence of Pulmonary Embolism Among Patients With COPD Hospitalized With Acutely Worsening Respiratory Symptoms. JAMA. 2021 Jan 5;325(1):59-68. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.23567. PubMed 33399840 ↗