[Clinico-epidemiological study of patients with phlebolymphatic diseases admitted to the hospitals of the Piedmont region 1976-1979. II. Analysis of lymphatic diseases and pulmonary embolism].

The second part of this research project looks at two very different pathologies. Pulmonary embolisms are usually emergency admissions, while lymphopathies, and this may well be an incorrect term, usually receive outpatient treatment and are only hospitalised in cases of serious incapacitation. Whereas lymphopathies were so few as to prevent any conclusions being drawn, regional admissions of pulmonary embolism occur every 28 hours and 44 minutes i.e. about 1 case per day. No particular relation between the distribution of pulmonary embolism and geographical area, level of industrialisation or migration was discovered. On the contrary there are few areas with higher figures than the expected regional average and these may be attributed to better medical organisation. Finally it should be emphasised that while cases of pulmonary embolism increase with age, the rise is less substantial than might have been expected.