Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common and potentially life-threatening condition with presentations ranging from mild symptoms to circulatory collapse. Early and accurate risk stratification is ...

In 15 patients with definite angiographic evidence of embolism involving both lungs, and treated with heparin or venous ligation or both, sequential studies showed only minimal angiographic and ...

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 ...

Reviewed by Ware Kuschner, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, & Critical Care Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine Among adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary ...

THE diagnosis of massive pulmonary embolism is frequently difficult and always uncertain, primarily because the symptoms and signs may mimic those of some other diseases, such as myocardial infarction ...

There’s a good chance that 22-year-old Katy Sauls would have died on Christmas Day last year if she hadn’t been at the right hospital at the right time. The Oakland Community College student from ...

One-third of pulmonary embolism patients will die of cardiac arrest before they even realize they have a blood clot. Learn what you can do to identify and treat this scary killer of young people with ...