Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism in patients with chronic heart failure

We examined 102 patients with PE in the background of CHF and 58 CHF patients with elevated d-dimer without pulmonary embolism with CT angiography. The level of brain natriuretic pep-tide in the groups was similar. The most informative signs of pulmonary embolism were deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, hemoptysis, paresis, syndrome SIQIII, negative T wave In leads v1-V3 on ECG, increased heart rate less than 100 UDA-a ditch in min, D-dimer more than 1.0 mg/L.