Background: Several clinical decision rules (CDRs) are available to exclude acute pulmonary
embolism (PE), but they have not been directly compared. Objective: To directly compare …

Background Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of maternal death in the
Western world. Because of the low specificity and sensitivity of the d-dimer test, all pregnant …

… Faber 15 , Catherine Le Gall 3 16 , Herman MA Hofstee 17 , Tom van der Hulle 1 ,
Marieke JHA Kruip 18 , Maxime Maignan 19 , Albert TA Mairuhu 20 , Saskia Middeldorp 21 , …

Background The major complication of COVID-19 is hypoxaemic respiratory failure from
capillary leak and alveolar oedema. Experimental and early clinical data suggest that the …

Objective. To investigate the inter- and intra-observer reliability of both qualitative and
quantitative parameters used in the assessment of nail-fold capillaroscopy images. Methods. Fifty …

The aim of this study is to compare the performance of two clinical decision rules to select
patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE) for outpatient treatment: the Hestia criteria and …

The diagnosis of recurrent ipsilateral deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is challenging, because
persistent intravascular abnormalities after previous DVT often hinder a diagnosis by …

Introduction The value of diagnostic strategies in patients with clinically suspected recurrent
pulmonary embolism (PE) has not been established. The aim was to determine the safety of …

We investigated whether the clinical criteria used in the Hestia study for selection of pulmonary
embolism (PE) patients for outpatient treatment could discriminate PE patients with high …

Methods Design. This is a patient-level post hoc analysis of the combined prospective Hestia
(Netherlands Trial Register identifier NTR1319) and Vesta (Netherlands Trial Register …