Pulmonary embolism - what is new in the 2019 European Society of Cardiology guidelines

Abstract

In 2019, the European Society of Cardiology published new guidelines for the management of acute pulmonary embolism. This article summarizes the new/revised concepts and recommendations.

Details as well as classes of recommendations and levels of evidence are listed in the original text of the guidelines.

Keywords

• anticoagulation
• chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension
• guidelines
• pulmonary embolism
• thrombolysis
• venous thrombosis.