A relatively new therapy used to treat pulmonary arterial hypertension in those with mild to moderate disease was found to be effective at preventing death in those with more advanced disease.

Symptomatic children may have pulmonary embolism and/or deep vein thrombosis at similar rates to adults, despite current literature.

Krunal Patel, MD, pulmonary and critical care fellow, Temple University Hospital, discusses how early intervention within 12 hours improved hemodynamic measurements and clinical outcomes in patients ...

DECT scans with a mistimed contrast bolus, defined as the mean iodine attenuation in the left atrium minus that in the pulmonary artery greater than the 95th ... labelled from the trachea (generation ...

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 ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Pulmonary artery denervation (PADN) shows promise as an intervention for pulmonary hypertension, improving key hemodynamic parameters and clinical outcomes. A ...

The contraceptive implant was found within the subsegmental artery of the anterobasal segment ... between August 1998 and September 2019. Pulmonary embolism from migration is even rarer.

A diagnosis of PE at baseline or during the 3 months of follow-up was defined as at least one of the following: (1) a CTPA demonstrating a filling defect in a central, segmental or lobular pulmonary ...

Suggested approach: A chronic history, markedly elevated systolic pulmonary arterial pressures, RV and bronchial artery hypertrophy ... Suggested approach: Incidental and isolated subsegmental PE ...

Here, we present a case where a subdermal contraceptive implant embolised in the subsegmental branch of the pulmonary artery within the anterobasal segment of the left lower lobe. Due to incorrect ...

Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a progressive disease with a poor prognosis, defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure > 25 mm Hg (>30 ... with even a lower sensitivity for segmental (68%) and ...