Long journeys, especially by air, can silently raise your risk of blood clots. Here's what every traveller should know about ...

One of the challenges of fighting pancreatic cancer is finding ways to penetrate the organ's dense tissue to define the ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality, particularly in patients classified as acute, ...

Aaron Holley, MD, writes that it takes a 'physiologic village' to create activity intolerance after pulmonary embolism, and ...

The AHA has published a scientific statement regarding disparities in current pulmonary embolism management and outcomes.

and pulmonary embolism (PE), with chemotherapy and targeted therapy further elevating this risk. Case summary: We report a case of a patient with atypical cranial imaging findings, where initial ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage of the main artery ... combination with laboratory tests (such as the D-dimer test) and imaging studies, usually CT pulmonary angiography.

Background Pulmonary hypertension (PHT) lacks community prevalence and outcome data. Objective To characterise minimum ‘indicative’ prevalences and mortality data for all forms of PHT in a selected ...

A new study investigating D-dimer testing in patients who are at higher risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) has been published in the February issue of Academic Emergency Medicine (AEM) , the ...

If your result is above the lab’s standard range, your doctor will likely order additional tests and imaging to find an explanation. »Learn more about pulmonary embolism. A D-dimer result above ...