[Clinico-morphological characteristics of pulmonary thromboembolism in decompensated heart patients]

The results from the studies on the case histories of 115 deceased decompensated cardiac patients with pulmonary thromboembolism are reported in the paper. It was established that those were mainly elderly people, both sexes almost equally engaged. The probable origin of embolism is analyzed in details as well as the concomitant diseases, anamnestic and clinical symptoms, some paraclinical deviations and the course of the disease. The involvement of the trunk or main branch and of the middle and small branches of pulmonary artery were separately discussed. Some differences are emphasized with the two localization of pulmonary thromboembolism. Finally, the various forms of the disease (cerebral, pulmonary, cardiac and abdominal) are discussed in details, with attention paid to the possible errors with them.