Meanings
adjectivesubmassive (not comparable)
- not comparablegeographyLess than, or approaching, massive.
Patients with submassive PE can be treated with anticoagulation medication alone as they are generally hemodynamically stable, whilst patients with massive PE usually present with hemodynamic instability and are treated with either pulmonary embolectomy or thrombolytic therapy.
2015 July 25, “Gender Differences in the Symptoms, Signs, Disease History, Lesion Position and Pathophysiology in Patients with Pulmonary Embolism”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
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