Mansoor’s self-report tool for cardiovascular risk assessment predicts adverse in-hospital events in patients with pulmonary embolism

Introduction Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening acute disease accompanied by high morbidity and mortality. In patients with acute PE it is well established that right ventricular dysfunction (RVD) during the acute phase (assessed by echocardiography or computed tomography), myocardial injury as well as hemodynamic status, are important predictors of adverse in-hospital outcomes. In addition, several approaches with different scores were tested and some of them established for risk stratification of PE patients in order to identify patients at higher risk to develop adverse events and especially those, who should be treated with reperfusion treatments. The recently published Mansoor’s Self-Report Tool for Cardiovascular Risk Assessment is an interesting and novel simple risk score to predict cardiovascular events in adults and might also be helpful for risk stratification in PE patients.