If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism, a CT scan is the gold standard for diagnostic imaging. Learn about when a CT scan is used for PE, how it works, what it looks like, and more.

Emergency physicians are still too often turning to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), recent data from two US metropolitan areas indicate. Of more than 1.8 ...

Patients presenting with low-risk pulmonary embolism are managed in different ways based on CT scan findings and not clinical risk factors, according to study results published in JAMA Network ...

Software that uses artificial intelligence to flag and triage cases of pulmonary embolism found in chest CT scans has been cleared by the FDA, Israeli radiology AI company Aidoc announced on May 15.

Using D-dimer measurement combined with multislice CT scan to detect pulmonary embolism is as effective as using D-dimer, venous ultrasonography of the leg and MSCT. Thus, venous ultrasonography ...

Several institutions reported a seven to 13-fold increase in use of CTPA by 2006, and nationally there was an 11-fold rise in chest CT angiography from 2001 to 2006 in the Medicare fee-for-service ...

If a person goes to the emergency room when a pulmonary embolism is suspected, they would likely be given a CT scan almost immediately. “The CT scan is an image that’s done with dye that ...

More important, a pulmonary embolism was missed in only two out of the 561 people who underwent CTPA versus six out of 611 people who'd had V/Q scans. If a pulmonary embolism goes undetected and ...

Experts say the study provides much-needed validation of a method that has already largely replaced pulmonary angiography for suspected PE. Use of a D-dimer assay to initially stratify patients is ...

If the D-dimer level is ≥ 1000 ng/mL, CTPA is ordered. For those with one or more items on the modified YEARS protocol, pulmonary embolism can be excluded if the D-dimer test shows a level less than ...

At the same time, US deaths from pulmonary embolism dropped only from 12.3 to 11.9 per 100 000. Age-adjusted fatality from pulmonary embolism for hospitalized patients declined by a third, "from ...