Investigators sought to determine whether there is a link between the frequency of recent ischemic stroke in patients with symptomatic pulmonary embolism and patent foramen ovale.
Expert radiologists can accurately identify patients who will later be diagnosed with CTEPH by evaluating the computed tomography pulmonary angiogram scan performed in the setting of suspected acute pulmonary embolism using 6 standardized radiologic parameters.
The VTE-BLEED risk score identified patients with pulmonary embolism at risk for in-hospital major
bleeding.
Alternative recanalization interventions showed no benefit to all-cause mortality compared with standard anticoagulation in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
A pregnancy-adapted algorithm can safely avoid diagnostic imaging in some pregnant women with suspected pulmonary embolism.
Current guidelines to diagnosis pulmonary embolism in pregnant patients offer conflicting recommendations.
Tofacitinib dosed at 10mg twice daily was associated with an increased risk of pulmonary embolism.
Pulmonary embolism is not common in individuals who present with syncope in emergency departments.
Compared with patients with a negative CT, patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension tended to have lower dual-energy computed tomography-based parenchymal attenuation in Hounsfield unit.
The use of inferior vena cava filters may increase the risk for 30-day and 1-year mortality in elderly patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
