ESC Guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism

ESC GUIDELINES
2014ESCGuidelinesonthediagnosisand
managementofacutepulmonaryembolism
The Task Force for the Diagnosis and Management of Acute
Pulmonary Embolism of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC)
Endorsed by the European Respiratory Society (ERS)
Authors/Task Force Members: Stavros V. Konstantinides*(Chairperson) (Germany/
Greece), Adam Torbicki
*(Co-chairperson) (Poland), Giancarlo Agnelli (Italy),
Nicolas Danchin (France), David Fitzmaurice (UK), Nazzareno Galie`(Italy),
J. Simon R. Gibbs (UK), Menno V. Huisman (The Netherlands), Marc Humbert
†
(France),NilsKucher(Switzerland),IreneLang(Austria),MareikeLankeit (Germany),
John Lekakis (Greece), Christoph Maack (Germany), Eckhard Mayer (Germany),
Nicolas Meneveau (France), Arnaud Perrier (Switzerland), Piotr Pruszczyk (Poland),
Lars H. Rasmussen (Denmark), Thomas H. Schindler (USA), Pavel Svitil (Czech
Republic), Anton Vonk Noordegraaf (The Netherlands), Jose Luis Zamorano (Spain),
Maurizio Zompatori (Italy)
ESC Committee for Practice Guidelines (CPG): Jose Luis Zamorano (Chairperson) (Spain), Stephan Achenbach
(Germany), Helmut Baumgartner (Germany), Jeroen J. Bax (Netherlands), Hector Bueno (Spain), Veronica Dean
(France), Christi Deaton (UK), Çetin Erol (Turkey), Robert Fagard (Belgium), Roberto Ferrari (Italy), David Hasdai
(Israel), Arno Hoes (Netherlands), Paulus Kirchhof (Germany/UK), Juhani Knuuti (Finland), Philippe Kolh (Belgium),
Patrizio Lancellotti (Belgium), Ales Linhart (Czech Republic), Petros Nihoyannopoulos (UK), Massimo F. Piepoli
*Corresponding authors. Stavros Konstantinides, Centre for Thrombosis and Hemostasis, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, University Medical Centre Mainz, Langenbeckstrasse
1, 55131 Mainz, Germany. Tel:+49 613 1176255, Fax:+49 613 1173456. Email:stavros.konstantinides@unimedizin-mainz.de, and Department of Cardiology, Democritus University of
Thrace, Greece. Email:skonst@med.duth.gr.
Adam Torbicki, Department of Pulmonary Circulation and Thromboembolic Diseases, Medical Centre of Postgraduate Education, ECZ-Otwock, Ul. Borowa 14/18, 05-400 Otwock,
Poland. Tel:+48 22 7103052, Fax:+48 22 710315. Email:adam.torbicki@ecz-otwock.pl.
†
Representing the European Respiratory Society
Other ESC entities having participated in the development of this document:
ESC Associations:Acute Cardiovascular Care Association (ACCA), European