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Table 1 Demographics and symptoms of patients who underwent CTPA

From: Yield of CT pulmonary angiography in the diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism: short report

Number of CTPA scans

1331

Age (years)

60.2 ± 16.6

Male sex (n)

575 (43.2)

Hemoptysis (n)

610 (45.9)

Dyspnea (n)

390 (29.3)

Chest pain (n)

417 (31.4)

Syncope (n)

340 (25.6)

Desaturation (n)

147 (11.1)

Signs of right-sided heart failure (n)

16 (1.20)

  1. Numbers in parentheses are percentages. Signs and symptoms were collected from the scan requests