WASHINGTON, DC — Large-bore mechanical thrombectomy is superior to catheter-directed thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism, according to a randomized trial comparing the two interventions ...

Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) who were treated with mechanical thrombectomy (MT) within 12 hours of hospital admission had significantly better pulmonary outcomes than patients treated ...

Hard results to date can be broken down into three major areas. First, an increase in clinically appropriate interventions. PERT intervention rates have increased by 73.8%, rising from 0.84% (17 ...

The Pulmonary Embolism Response Team — PERT — at YNHH plays a central role in the hospital’s comprehensive approach to managing pulmonary embolism. The team is responsible for evaluating patients who ...

TCT 741: Outcomes Following Catheter-Directed Interventions in Older Adults With Acute Pulmonary Embolism According to Severity. Presenter: Atsuyuki Watanabe. October 28, 2024. REGISTER for free or ...

Penumbra has completed subject enrolment in the multi-centre, randomised controlled trial, STORM-PE, which assesses the computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy (CAVT) using the company’s Lightning ...

Pulmonary embolism is a blood clot in the lungs that requires immediate medical treatment. Learn more about the life expectancy, diagnosis tests, and treatments. Health ...

The BEdside Exclusion of Pulmonary Embolism in children without need for Radiation, or BEEPER, multicenter prospective study included 4,011 children (mean age, 14 ± 3 years; 64.4% girls; 57.7% ...

A 70-year-old man was taken to the emergency room due to sudden difficulty in breathing. The diagnostic result is 'Closed embolism'. A month ago, while lying in a hospital bed with a fracture in ...