Contemporary National Trends and Outcomes of Pulmonary Embolism in the United States
Recommended Citation
Sedhom R, Megaly M, Elbadawi A, Elgendy IY, Witzke CF, Kalra S, George JC, Omer M, Banerjee S, Jaber WA, and Shishehbor MH. Contemporary National Trends and Outcomes of Pulmonary Embolism in the United States. Am J Cardiol 2022.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-1-2022
Publication Title
The American journal of cardiology
Abstract
Contemporary data on the national trends in pulmonary embolism (PE) admissions and outcomes are scarce. We aimed to analyze trends in mortality and different treatment methods in acute PE. We queried the Nationwide Readmissions Database (2016 to 2019) to identify hospitalizations with acute PE using the International Classification of Diseases, Tenth Revision, Clinical Modification codes. We described the national trends in admissions, in-hospital mortality, readmissions, and different treatment methods in acute PE. We identified 1,427,491 hospitalizations with acute PE, 2.4% of them (n = 34,446) were admissions with high-risk PE. The rate of in-hospital mortality in all PE hospitalizations was 6.5%, and it remained unchanged throughout the study period. However, the rate of in-hospital mortality in high-risk PE decreased from 48.1% in the first quarter of 2016 to 38.9% in the last quarter of 2019 (p-trend <0.001). The rate of urgent 30-day readmission was 15.2% in all PE admissions and 19.1% in high-risk PE admissions. In all PE admissions, catheter-directed interventions (CDI) were used more often (2.5%) than systemic thrombolysis (ST) (2.1%). However, in admissions with high-risk PE, ST remained the most frequently used method (ST vs CDI: 11.3% vs 6.6%). In conclusion, this study showed that the rate of in-hospital mortality in high-risk PE decreased from 2016 to 2019. ST was the most frequently used method for achieving pulmonary reperfusion in high-risk PE, whereas CDI was the most frequently used method in the entire PE cohort. In-hospital death and urgent readmissions rates remain significantly high in patients with high-risk PE.
Medical Subject Headings
Acute Disease; Hospital Mortality; Humans; Pulmonary Embolism; Retrospective Studies; Risk Factors; Thrombolytic Therapy; United States
PubMed ID
35637010
ePublication
ePub ahead of print
Volume
176
First Page
132
Last Page
138
