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European Heart Journal Advance Access originally published online on January 9, 2009
European Heart Journal 2009 30(2):133-134; doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn564
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Published on behalf of the European Society of Cardiology. All rights reserved. © The Author 2009. For permissions please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Symptomatic travel associated pulmonary embolism: high severity does not imply poor long term prognosis

Aline Santin and Bertrand Renaud*

Department of Emergency Medicine, AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Henri Mondor-Albert Chenevier, F-94010 Créteil, France

* Corresponding author. Tel: +33 1 49 81 25 23, Fax: +33 1 49 81 29 87, Email: bertrand.renaud@hmn.aphp.fr

This editorial refers to ‘Incidence, clinical characteristics, and long-term prognosis of travel-associated pulmonary embolism’{dagger} by R. Lehmann et al. on page 233

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As air travel has become increasingly popular during the last two decades, the death of a 27-year-old woman in the Arrivals Hall at Heathrow Airport after a 20 h flight triggered an important number of medical investigations that aimed to clarify the epidemiology, physiopathology, and associated risk factors of the so-called ‘economy class syndrome’ in order to support the evaluation of preventive strategies. Indeed, given the large number of people travelling long distances around the world, strategies intended for travel-associated venous thrombo-embolism (VTE) prevention must reach a high level of scientific quality, demonstrating safety and high effecacy. Therefore, such strategies should primarily focus on those patients with the highest risk of serious adverse outcomes associated with travel-related VTE. . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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