Improving Clinical Prediction of Pulmonary Embolism in Pregnancy and Postpartum by Modifying Wells Score with a Population Specific Risk Factor: <i>A retrospective study</i>
The study confirms that low WS effectively excludes PE, reducing the need of imaging in pregnancy and postpartum. Incorporating SCD enhances sensitivity and specificity of a high score aiding to prioritise women for diagnostic imaging or empirical anticoagulation.
Authors
- Vaidyanathan Gowri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7055-336X)
- Maryam Nasser Al Shukri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7530-5023)
- Karolina Stachyra (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1177-8366)
- Sumaya Al Amri
- Khadija D B Ishaq
- W. Saïdi
- AlBayan Al Masalami
- Elias Houari
Institutions
- Université Libre de Bruxelles (BE)
- Medical University of Warsaw (PL)
- Royal Hospital (OM)
- Sultan Qaboos University (OM)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Sultan Qaboos University medical journal
- Published
- 2025-06-24
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.18295/2075-0528.2868
- Primary Topic
- Venous Thromboembolism Diagnosis and Management
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00