The clinical significance of subsegmental pulmonary embolism (SSPE) remains to be determined. This study aimed to investigate whether SSPE forms a distinct subset of thromboembolic disease compared with more proximally located pulmonary embolism (PE). We analyzed 3728 consecutive patients with clinically suspected PE. SSPE patients were contrasted to patients with more proximal PE and to patien...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a significant complication of orthopedic surgery, although it is rare after arthrosocopic surgery. PE is stratified into low, intermediate or high risk, depending on the haemodynamic status of the patient and the presence of markers of right ventricular dysfunction. Both the management and the choice of the appropriate level of care [i.e., intensive care unit (ICU), c...

On a daily investment decision in a security market, the price earnings (PE) ratio is one of the most widely applied methods being used as a firm valuation tool by investment experts. Unfortunately, recent academic developments in financial econometrics and machine learning rarely look at this tool. In practice, fundamental PE ratios are often estimated only by subjective expert opinions. The p...

INTRODUCTION The diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism (APE) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) remains a difficult task, despite the refinement of imaging techniques. The goal of this study was to assess the value of measuring tricuspid and mitral valve systolic annular velocities in CHF patients with suspected PE by tissue Doppler imaging (TDI). MATERIAL AND METHODS The study incl...

The translocation of apocytochrome c (apocyt.c) across large unilamellar vesicles (LUVs) constructed from mixtures of anionic and zwitterionic phospholipids, phosphatidylethanolamine (PE) and phosphatidylcholine (PC), has been studied. It was shown that the import ratio of horse heart apocyt.c in LUVs composed of phosphatidic acid (PA) combined with PE and PC (62+/-10%) was much higher than tha...

In this study, we aimed to examine the clinical value of the pleural effusion (PE) biomarkers, soluble mesothelin-related peptide (SMRP), cytokeratin 19 fragment (CYFRA 21-1) and carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), and the utility of combining chest computed tomography (CT) findings with these biomarkers, in diagnosing malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM). We conducted a retrospective cohort study ...

The magnitude and efficiency of particulate carbon export from the ocean surface depends not only on net primary production (NPP) but also how is consumed, respired, repackaged by organisms. We contend that several these processes can be captured size spectrum plankton community. However, most global models have relatively simple food-web structures are unable to generate spectra. Moreover, lif...

BACKGROUND Pericardial effusion (PE) is a common finding in patients who had chronic cardiac failure, who had undergone cardiac surgery, or who had certain other benign and malignant diseases. PE ranges in severity from mild, asymptomatic effusions to cardiac tamponade. Although a thoracoscopic pericardial window (TPW) is a minimally invasive surgical option for patients with PE, there are few ...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To evaluate the incidence and clinical factors related to the persistence of infarct-associated pericardial effusion (PE) after primary angioplasty. DESIGN Consecutive case-series analysis. SETTING Coronary care unit in a university hospital. PATIENTS Three hundred ninety-one consecutive patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) who underwent successful primary percu...

PURPOSE The purpose of this investigation was to determine the frequency of future pulmonary embolism (PE) among patients in whom PE was suspected and excluded by pulmonary angiography. METHODS Data are from the Prospective Investigation of Pulmonary Embolism Diagnosis (PIOPED). The present investigation includes 380 patients in whom PE was excluded by pulmonary angiography and who received n...