Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

Use of CT pulmonary angiography to diagnose pulmonary emboli is increasing ... as they may carry important prognostic and therapeutic implications. pulmonary embolism right ventricular dysfunction ...

Background CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is widely regarded as the gold standard test for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) and is increasingly used as an all-inclusive diagnostic tool for patients ...

Abstract: Pulmonary embolism (PE) affects up to 600,000 patients and contributes to at least 100,000 deaths every year in the United States alone. Diagnosis of PE can be difficult as most symptoms are ...

Earlier intervention is beneficial for patients with pulmonary embolism (PE), even in those with intermediate risk, which highlights the need to update the current classification system to ...

Angiography was negative in 3 patients. In none of these was the subsequent course suggestive of pulmonary embolism. However, failure to demonstrate obstructive lesions of the pulmonary arteries ...

substantial resolution of pulmonary embolism may occur within days or weeks as demonstrated by pulmonary angiography. 4–10 However, a systematic evaluation of the rate of angiographic and ...

The objective of this study was to investigate the risk of acute internal jugular, subclavian, and axillary deep venous thrombosis (upper torso DVT [UTDVT]) and pulmonary embolism (PE) and the ...

[24] More recent literature on CT-guided lung biopsies demonstrates a definite difference in the diagnostic yield and accuracy when biopsies are performed on small nodules (≤ 2 cm). [13,16,17,19 ...

aDepartment of Clinical Neurological Sciences, London Health Sciences Centre, Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada bBrain & Heart Lab, Schulich School of Medicine, ...