pulmonary embolism
blockage of the main artery of the lung or one of its branches by a substance that has travelled from elsewhere in the body
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Summary
pulmonary embolism is a class of disease[1]. It ranks in the top 0.91% of class of disease entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (19,123 views/month, #18 of 1,968).[2]
Key Facts
- Subclass of: pulmonary artery disease[3]
- Commons category: Pulmonary embolism[4]
- ICPC 2 ID: K93[5]
- Symptoms and signs: Hampton hump[6], Westermark sign[7]
- Described by source: The Unified Medical Dictionary (Librairie du Liban, 2009)[8]
- ICD-9-CM: 415.19[9]
- NCI Thesaurus ID: C50713[10]
- Health specialty: cardiology[11], hematology[12], pulmonology[13]
- Drug or therapy used for treatment: rac-warfarin[14], anisindione[15], phenprocoumon[16], urokinase[17], dalteparin[18], papaverine[19], tinzaparin[20], Streptokinase[21], anistreplase[22], dicumarol[23], apixaban[24], macitentan[25], fondaparinux sodium[26], edoxaban[27]
- Exact match: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_9477[28], http://identifiers.org/doid/DOID:9477[29], http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/HP_0002204[30]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine[31]
Why It Matters
pulmonary embolism has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 67 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]