PULMONARY angiography is potentially the most positive means for diagnosing thromboembolism of the lung. The importance of such a procedure can hardly be overstated when one is dealing with a ...

A retrospective spectral CT imaging study found that pulmonary infarction occurred exclusively in lung segments affected by ...

Professor of Family Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, N.C. The PERC decision rule is an eight-item set of clinical criteria, including arterial oxygen saturation of ...

—Based on their findings, these investigators believe that the benefits of computed tomography pulmonary angiogram for detection of a suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients with chronic ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening condition whose prognosis remains difficult to predict. While metabolic ...

The Pulmonary Embolism Reporting and Data Systems (PE-RADS) framework for diagnosing and classifying acute pulmonary embolism using CT and magnetic resonance (MR) angiography was published in ...

Backround A 40-year-old woman presented with dyspnea in the fifth month of pregnancy followed by a sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain 2 weeks postpartum. She was diagnosed as having pulmonary ...

A retrospective study of 104 children demonstrated that measuring the distance between the pulmonary artery bifurcation and ...

Characteristics and behavior of invasive breast cancer developed despite prior oophorectomy. Prevalence of anal squamous intraepithelial lesions in HIV-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with ...

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks the lung’s arteries. Blood clots do not show on chest X-rays. However, these X-rays may help doctors rule out other health conditions with similar ...

The incidence of venous thromboembolism combined is reported to be around 9 lakh per year from US, 7.5 lakh per year from European Union, and the Indian report is around less than 2.5 lakh per annum.