Leben Tefera, MD, is a vascular medicine specialist and director of the Pulmonary Embolism Response Team in the Tomsich Family Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Sydell and Arnold Miller Family Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland Ohio. He is also an assistant professor at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.
Pulmonary embolism (PE) is the third-most common cause of cardiovascular death, behind only heart attack and stroke. This potentially life-threatening condition occurs more commonly in...
