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Pulmonary Embolism in Patients with Unexplained Exacerbations of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Grégoire Le Gal, MD; and
- Marc Righini, MD
- From Brest University Hospital, 29609 Brest Cedex, France, and Geneva University Hospital, 1211 Geneva, Switzerland.
TO THE EDITOR:
We read with great interest the article by Tillie-Leblond and colleagues (1) on the prevalence of pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who are hospitalized for severe exacerbation of unknown origin. This paper deserves 2 comments.
First, the authors reported that a low clinical probability as assessed by the Geneva …
