(HealthDay News) — For patients with suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography is superior to chest radiography for providing a diagnosis, even when no PE is ...

November 23, 2009 — Chest computed tomography angiograms (CTAs) to evaluate patients for acute pulmonary embolism in the emergency department are more than twice as likely to find an incidental ...

ATLANTA -- Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) brought to emergency rooms because they had passed out tended to have the most ominous risk factors for poor outcomes, a researcher said here. And, ...

For emergency department patients with suspected PE, the strategy wasn't inferior for thromboembolic events compared with a conventional diagnostic strategy of subjective estimation of pretest ...

I would not have suspected Sonya was at particular risk for a clot to the lungs, also known as a pulmonary embolism (PE). She sat in my office relating her story: “Two weeks ago I ran a 10 K race.

In the emergency department (ED), it has become common practice to treat deep venous thrombosis (DVT) “below the knee” with enoxaparin (Lovenox) injection prior to discharge, followed by warfarin ...

(HealthDay News) – Patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) who present to the emergency department with syncope are more likely to have a high-risk, large embolism, with a chief complaint of syncope ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 79.5% of children in the ED had D-dimer diagnostic testing. Testing patterns and imaging yield rates for ...

An AI tool for detection of incidental pulmonary embolus (iPE) on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations had high NPV and moderate PPV, even finding some iPEs missed by radiologists.