Prevalence and outcome of acute pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease

Prevalence and outcome of acute pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease

Julia Iourinets a) h), Cathryn Sawalski b), Parth Desai b), David Sutherland b), Parth Shah b), Elizabeth Bruno b), Punit Arora b), Muhammad Malik b), Axat Patel d), Tauseef Akhtar e), Jawed Fareed f), Yevgeniy Brailovsky c), Amar Naik g), Amir Darki a) b)

a) Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Loyola University Medical Center, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, United States of America

b) Department of Internal Medicine, Loyola University Medical Center, Loyola Stritch School of Medicine, Maywood, IL, United States of America

c) Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Jefferson Heart Institute, Sidney Kimmel School of Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University, PA, United States of America

d) Department of Physiology, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, United States of America

e) Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Cardiology, MercyOne North Iowa Hospital, Mason City, IA, United States of America

f) Department of Pathology, Pharmacology and Neuroscience, Cardiovascular Research Institute, Hemostasis and Thrombosis Research Division, Loyola University, Maywood, IL, United States of America

g) Department of Gastroenterology, Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL, United States of America

h) Department of Internal Medicine, University of Chicago NorthShore Health System, Evanston, IL, United States of America

Highlights

• Patients with immune-mediated Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) are at an increased risk of pulmonary embolism (PE).

• Adult patients with PE were studied. Exposure of interest was IBD. Primary outcome was in-hospital mortality.

• There was no significant difference in in-hospital mortality found between patients with PE and IBD and those without IBD.