Management of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) includes multimodal therapy that depends on expert ...

Recurrent pulmonary embolism as a cause of chronic heart disease was probably first recognized by Ljungdahl 8 in 1928. Brenner, 9 in his systematic studies of the pulmonary vasculature in 1935 ...

In the patients with pulmonary thromboembolism the major arteriographic abnormalities were complete or incomplete obstruction of various pulmonary arterial branches (Fig. 3 B, 4 B and 5 B ...

Concurrent Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Medically reviewed by Raj Dasgupta, MD — Written by Kirsten Nunez on July 19, 2021. Causes; ...

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Medscape InDiscussion podcast. Today we're talking about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...

During the 3-month follow-up, 5 of 670 patients who were discharged without anticoagulation were diagnosed with PE (0.7%, 95% CI 0.3% to 1.7%), and 3 of them died.

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A long-term real-world study of older adults with COPD shows that initiation of tiotropium is linked to a minimal increase in dementia risk, which is unlikely to outweigh its clinical benefits.