TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Xin AU - Xiang, Yongbo AU - Zhang, Ting AU - Yang, Yuqing AU - Sun, Xuefeng AU - Shi, Juhong PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/11 TI - Association between serum calcium and prognosis in patients with acute pulmonary embolism and the optimization of pulmonary embolism severity index JO - Respiratory Research SP - 298 VL - 21 IS - 1 AB - Calcium is an important coagulation factor and hypocalcemia is related to progression and poor prognosis of many cardiopulmonary diseases. However, influence of hypocalcemia on pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) prognosis has never been reported. This study aimed to explore its prognostic value and optimize the pulmonary embolism severity index (PESI), the widely used prognosis assessment model, based on the value. SN - 1465-993X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12931-020-01565-z DO - 10.1186/s12931-020-01565-z ID - Wang2020 ER -