However, some patients with chronic thromboembolic disease do not present with documented history of PE or DVT. They may present with just symptoms and signs of pulmonary hypertension. So, one cannot exclude CTEPH just because the patient has no prior history of venous thromboembolism (VTE).
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It was repealed on December 13, 1920. Though the legislation enacted in 1918 is commonly called the Sedition Act, it was actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act. Therefore, many studies of the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act find it difficult to report on the two acts separately. For example, one historian reports that some fifteen hundred prosecutions were carried out under the Espionage and Sedition Acts, resulting in more than a thousand convictions..