Inquest hears Derek O’Neill did not receive prescribed anticoagulants for blood clots which ultimately led to his death ...

Exclusion criteria were patients who initially presented with PE, and the diagnosis of PE was made before the diagnosis of DVT, and special cases where CTPA examination could not clearly diagnose the ...

Despite the global adoption of ventilation–perfusion SPECT as the standard for pulmonary embolism diagnosis, its use in the United States remains limited ... when CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) ...

Background Physicians treating acute pulmonary embolism (PE) are faced with difficult management decisions while specific guidance from recent guidelines may be absent. Methods Fourteen clinical ...

Objectives The psychological effects of acute pulmonary embolism (PE) have scarcely been studied ... All patients alive at the beginning of March 2012, and with a PE diagnosis confirmed by CT ...

Correspondence to Ruth E Barker, National Heart and Lung Institiute, Imperial College London, London, UK; r.barker18{at}imperial.ac.uk Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) following hospitalisations for ...

Despite the poor outcomes related to the presence of pulmonary hypertension, it often goes undiagnosed in part because of low suspicion and screening tools not being easily accessible such as ...

and bedside echocardiography is suggested in hemodynamically unstable patients if CTPA is not feasible. After a definitive diagnosis is made, validated risk stratification tools (mostly the pulmonary ...

Opens in a new tab or window LOS ANGELES -- For surgeons already split on their preference of inhaled pulmonary vasodilator to prevent postoperative right ventricular (RV) failure, a shifting ...