A 41-year-old woman on the combined oral contraceptive presents with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea. Wells score suggests moderate probability of P...

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A 41-year-old woman on the combined oral contraceptive presents with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea. Wells score suggests moderate probability of PE. D-dimer is positive. She is haemodynamically stable. What is the next best test?

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CT pulmonary angiography

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Ventilation-perfusion scan as first-line in all

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Echocardiography

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CT head

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Lower limb venography

ukmla MCQ (SBA): Pulmonary Embolism

A 41-year-old woman on the combined oral contraceptive presents with pleuritic chest pain and dyspnoea. Wells score suggests moderate probability of PE. D-dimer is positive. She is haemodynamically stable. What is the next best test?