Cancer and several types of treatment may increase the risk of developing pulmonary embolism. Learn more about causes, risk ... CT pulmonary angiogram; pulmonary V/Q scan to see if your airflow is ...

So we have criteria that should guide the use of imaging, and we don't always follow them, like for pulmonary embolism testing, like for trauma in children, do they need a head CT. And those ...

Introduction. Most algorithms for management of suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) recommend D-dimer testing for patients with low pretest probability of disease (Wells score <2), with no further ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) remains one of the leading causes of maternal mortality. At the French Thoracic Society Spring Days ...

Background CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) is widely regarded as the gold standard test for suspected pulmonary embolism (PE) and is increasingly used as an all-inclusive diagnostic tool for patients ...

Penumbra (NYSE:PEN) announced today that it completed enrollment in the STORM-PE trial of its Lightning Flash system.

Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics.

A CT scan (also called a CAT scan) is a series of cross-sectional X-ray images of the body. Learn why a CT scan is performed and what to expect during one.

Medical imaging scans that create detailed images of the body’s internal structures are widely used in medicine. Doctors need them to detect and manage certain types of cancer, assess the extent of ...

Emily, 33, suffered a pulmonary embolism in February during a long-haul flight She said it was due to her birth control, which was estrogen based READ MORE: Primary school teacher, 28, died from ...

Emphysema subtypes, identified via CT, may be linked to cardiopulmonary subphenotypes that can help to target cardiac care in early COPD.