Table 2.
Comparison of Pulmonary Artery Obstruction Improvement Scales, Comparing Two Treatments for PTE
| 24 h |
14 d |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Qualitative Changea | rt-PA 100 mg (n = 48) | rt-PA 50 mg (n = 55) | P | rt-PA 100 mg (n = 48) | rt-PA 50 mg (n = 55) | P |
| Significant improvement | 30 (62) | 33 (60) | .297 | 29 (60) | 33 (60) | .241 |
| Slight improvement | 10 (21) | 13 (24) | … | 14 (29) | 16 (29) | … |
| No change | 6 (13) | 3 (5) | … | 3 (6) | 5 (9) | … |
| Worse | 2 (4) | 6 (11) | … | 2 (4) | 1 (2) | … |
| Any improvement | 40 (83.3) | 46 (83.6) | .967 | 43 (89.6) | 49 (89.1) | .936 |
Data presented are number (%) of patients. Improvements of pulmonary artery obstruction from baseline between two treatments were compared. See Table 1 for expansion of abbreviations.
a
Any improvement (%) = (significant + slight)/total, which indicates the percentage of overall improvement. Significant improvement = obstruction decreased by ≥ 75%; slight improvement = obstruction decreased by ≥ 25% but < 75%; no change = obstruction reduced by < 25%; worse = obstruction increased in score index.