A new guideline for acute pulmonary embolism developed by 10 major specialty societies introduces a novel PE clinical ...

The routine use of computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography for the detection of pulmonary emboli has led to overdiagnosis of the condition, according to a new study published online July 2 in ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage in one of the arteries in your lungs. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the organs, muscles, and other tissue. Most of the ...

Pulmonary angiography is an X-ray procedure that looks at the blood vessels leading to and from your lungs. The X-rays produced are called pulmonary angiograms, which may show blood clots in and ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

The treatment resulted in clinical improvement, and the patient began to breathe spontaneously. The levels of inflammatory markers were normal. However, on day 11, the patient developed dyspnea, ...

Approximately one in six patients hospitalized for a first episode of syncope have a pulmonary embolism, a new study shows, with the prevalence of pulmonary embolism highest among individuals without ...

A subsegmental pulmonary embolism is a blood clot located on a distal, or distant and less central, branch of the pulmonary arteries. Treatment can depend on symptoms and risk factors. A subsegmental ...

What Is Pulmonary Vascular Disease? The definition of pulmonary vascular disease is simple: any condition that affects the blood vessels along the route between the heart and lungs. Blood travels from ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when blood flow to an artery that supplies blood to the lungs has become blocked, typically due to a blood clot. Complications can develop from either the clot or the ...