Author/Authors :
Çalışkan, Hacı Mehmet Yozgat Devlet Hastanesi - Acil Servis Kliniği, Turkey , Eren, Şevki Hakan Cumhuriyet Üniversitesi - Tıp Fakültesi - Acil Tıp Anabilim Dalı, Turkey , Taner, Ali Yozgat Devlet Hastanesi - Kardiyoloji Kliniği, Turkey , Tülümen, Erol Yozgat Devlet Hastanesi - Kardiyoloji Kliniği, Turkey , Demirbaş, Hüseyin Murat Yozgat Devlet Hastanesi - Göğüs Hastalıkları Kliniği, Turkey , Kaya, Şeyhmuz Eskişehir Devlet Hastanesi - Acil Servis Kliniği, Turkey
Title Of Article :
Unnoticed symptoms of pulmonary embolism: Vertigo and syncope
Abstract :
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the pulmonary emergent disease which hardly diagnosed, high mortality rates, and frequently seen in emergency department. PE cases are seen many different clinical symptoms. Most common symptoms are sudden started dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, coughing, hemoptysis, tachypnea, and tachycardia. Syncope is rarely first referring symptom of the PE cases, however, in massif PE cases syncope is more frequently seem and unless urgent diagnosis and treatment, mortality rates is quite high. Therefore, in differential diagnosis of the syncope patients PE must keep in mind. In this study, five massive PE cases were presented who admitted to emergency service with syncope and vertigo symptoms.
NaturalLanguageKeyword :
Pulmonary embolism , vertigo , syncope
JournalTitle :
Cumhuriyet Medical Journal
