Role of echocardiography in suspected acute pulmonary embolism in a patient with normal hemodynamics: a case report with literature reveiw

ABSTRACT

Pulmonary embolism is a disease with high mortality if left untreated, but early diagnosis and treatment are compromised on account of its variable and non-specific presentation. Although ventilation/perfusion scan is the widely used diagnostic modality of choice, in our opinion echocardiography, being an easily available and rapid bedside modality, can be used more frequently and e ffectively in the diagnosis and management of a suspected case of acute pulmonary embolism in a patient with normal hemodynamics as was evident in our case report