"Acute pulmonary embolism is an emergency diagnosis and major cause of vascular death. It also presents one of the most missed diagnosis with heterogenous clinical presentation. The individual patient and health care burden of pulmonary embolism is increased in the era of increased prevalence of cancer associated pulmonary embolism, high risk pregnancy, underline thrombophilia's, cardiovascular disease and in the last two years, COVID-19 infection. This book comprehensively reviews the etiology, pathophysiology, symptoms, diagnostic approach, imaging, risk stratification and contemporary treatment for pulmonary embolism in several patients' scenarios. The chapters also cover treatment of deep vein thrombosis, the role or pulmonary embolism response teams (PERT), catheter interventions in pulmonary embolism as well as all challenges in chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). The book's purpose is helping different physician profiles to properly treat often |