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•Pulmonary embolism remains a frequent medical problem, despite the increase in implementation of anticoagulant drugs.•The costs of diagnostics and therapy of pulmonary embolism are significant.•The orthopedic patients are one of the high-risk groups of pulmonary embolism.•Some parameters not frequently analyzed in pulmonary embolism patients, such as NT-proBNP and more, can improve the diagnostics of pulmonary embolism and generate little cost.

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