Patients presenting with low-risk pulmonary embolism are managed in different ways based on CT scan findings and not clinical risk factors, according to study results published in JAMA Network ...

According to a 2022 review, a pulmonary tumor embolism (PTE) is most commonly associated with liver cancer and other adenocarcinomas. These are cancers that begin in the cells of the glands that ...

O’Hare, C., et al. (2023) Adverse Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Acute Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism and Concerning Computed Tomography Imaging Findings.

A pulmonary embolism can occur suddenly and can be life-threatening (with survival rates as low as 65 percent), but if caught and treated in time, they are rarely fatal (with survival rates above ...

Paper cited: “Adverse Clinical Outcomes Among Patients With Acute Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism and Concerning Computed Tomography Imaging Findings,” JAMA Network Open.

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Time spent sitting each day was directly associated with risk for idiopathic pulmonary embolism (in combined data, 41/104,720 for the most inactive women compared with 16/14,565 for the least ...

Smoking may increase your risk of developing pulmonary embolism, which is a blood clot that forms in the lungs. Learn more.

Journal: Annals of Emergency Medicine Published: 2024-03-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2024.01.036 Affiliations: 5 Authors: 14 ...

A significant number of low-risk patients who visited the ED for acute pulmonary embolism were hospitalized despite evidence supporting outpatient management, according to a recent study.“In ...

An analysis of more than 1.6 million emergency department (ED) visits for acute pulmonary embolism (PE) has found that nearly two-thirds of ED visits still resulted in hospitalization for low-risk ...