Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research
Associated Factors to Pulmonary Embolism Lethality in a Sub-Saharan African Country: Case of the Cardiology Department of the Yalgado Ouedraogo University Hospital
By Pêngd-Wendé Habib Boussé Traore, Aimé Somé, Georges Rosario Christian Millogo and 3 others.
Abstract
Introduction
Third cause of cardiovascular mortality worldwide, pulmonary embolism (PE) is a diagnostic and therapeutic emergency. The main objective of this study was to determine the factors associated with the lethality of PE in the Cardiology department of the Yalgado OUEDRAOGO University Hospital Center (CHU-YO) from 2015 to 2019. Methodology: The study was descriptive with an analytical aim by retrospective collection of data on the clinical observations of hospitalized patients.
