If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism, a CT scan is the gold standard for diagnostic imaging. Learn about when a CT scan is used for PE, how it works, what it looks like, and more.

Pulmonary Embolism Tests A D-dimer is a blood test that measures blood protein levels that signal the presence of a clot. If the D-dimer test is positive or if your history or exam suggest a high risk ...

Radiologists play an important role in the assessment and management of pulmonary hypertension. A working group was formed to address key questions related to the utility of imaging for the ...

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 ...

Your scan may reveal a nodule on your lungs, but that doesn’t mean that you have cancer. Nodules are found in up to half of adults who have a chest X-ray or CT scan of the lungs. [3] But, less ...

Emergency physicians are still too often turning to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), recent data from two US metropolitan areas indicate. Of more than 1.8 ...

by Liz Bonis & Megan Burgasser, WKRC Wed, October 18th 2023 at 4:28 PM ...

A new study, published in the October 2004 American Journal of Roentgenology, shows that during a nine-month period in 1997 –1998, 81 patients underwent CT for suspected pulmonary embolism ...

An AI tool for detection of incidental pulmonary embolus (iPE) on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations had high NPV and moderate PPV, even finding some iPEs missed by radiologists.

Ultimately, the commercial AI tool had NPV of 99.8% and PPV of 86.7% for detection of iPE on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations (i.e., not using CT pulmonary angiography ...