Coronavirus Pneumonia and Pulmonary Thromboembolism

Acute pulmonary thromboembolism associated with interstitial pneumonia.

A 68-year-old woman, who had been diagnosed as idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, complained of progressive dyspnea on exertion for a week. Although her chest radiograph did not worsen, arterial blood gas findings were markedly worsened. Contrast-enhanced chest computed tomography showed filling defects of the right upper and middle lobe branches of the pulmonary artery. She was diagnosed as ha...

Epidemiology, diagnosis and treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism: review article

High incidence and mortality rate of pulmonary thromboembolism urge physicians to be aware of its occurrence and treatment. Pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) typically manifests itself with acute dyspnea and tachycardia and may occur along with deep vein thrombosis. However, syncope, chest pain and heart failure decompensation in previously stable patients might be another presenting signs and sym...

Pulmonary thromboembolism.

OBJECTIVE To review the pathophysiology, clinical signs, diagnosis, and treatment of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in small animals. DATA SOURCES Human and veterinary clinical studies, reviews, texts, and recent research in canine and feline PTE diagnosis and thromboembolic therapeutics. HUMAN DATA SYNTHESIS In humans, clinical probability assessment and point-of-care D-dimer-based algori...

Pulmonary System and Thromboembolism

Young Male’s Post Appendectomy Complication of Pulmonary Thromboembolism

The main goal of this report was to share with clinicians an atypical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in a young male`s post-appendectomy, whom he had no significant predisposing factors for such disease. The case also introduced for re-examining the challenges of PTE clinical manifestations which may mimic other differential diagnosis. PTE is an abrupt blockage of the pulmonary...