نتایج جستجو برای: peripheral pulmonary embolism

تعداد نتایج: 414915  

Journal: :Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases 2010
Seung-Ick Cha Kyung-Min Shin Jung-Woo Lee Jongmin Lee Shin-Yup Lee Chang-Ho Kim Jae-Yong Park Tae-Hoon Jung

BACKGROUND The clinical relevance of emboli limited to the segmental or sub-segmental pulmonary arteries and the role of anticoagulation in patients with these conditions remains to be clarified. OBJECTIVES To determine the clinical characteristics and treatment outcomes of peripheral pulmonary embolism (PE), and in particular, isolated sub-segmental PE (ISSPE). METHODS We reviewed the data...

2011
Rajasekharan Chandrasekharan Mithun Chalakarayil Bhagavaldas Ashish Jacob Mathew

INTRODUCTION Acute pulmonary embolism has varied presentations ranging from asymptomatic, incidentally discovered emboli to massive embolism, causing immediate death. Tumor embolism is a rare but unique complication of malignancies. This uncommon catastrophe of a malignant tumor in a young patient, culminating as a pulmonary embolism, is being reported for the first time. CASE PRESENTATION A ...

Journal: :Annals of Surgery 1951

2011
Jong-Yeon Lee Su-Yeon Lee Inho Shin Chunghyun Park Byung-Sang Lee Min Sung Kim

A pulmonary embolism and cerebral infarction are the second and third most common acute cardiovascular diseases after a myocardial infarction. Early diagnosis and appropriate management are important clinical challenges. In this case, a fatal pulmonary embolism and extensive cerebral infarction caused cardiac arrest during spinal anesthesia for total hip replacement surgery. Transesophageal ech...

2015
Lin Zhang Yiwu Zhou Ho. Kwok

Pneumatic lithotripsy is a minimally invasive technique mainly for the treatment of urinary staghorn stones. Previous literatures have reported some therapeutic complications during or after this procedure, but calculi embolism has not been mentioned before.We report here a fatal case of calculi-induced pulmonary embolism in an adult woman who underwent pneumatic lithotripsy. An autopsy did not...

2010
Prabhat Khakural Kajan R. Shrestha Ranjan Sapkota Uttam K. Shrestha

Pulmonary embolism carries a significant morbidity and mortality. Metastatic choriocarcinoma presenting as pulmonary embolism is a rare event. Here, we report a case of a 25-year-lady with a history of worsening shortness of breath for 4 months who was treated as a case of pneumonia and tuberculosis. Owing to the worsening condition, she had a contrast enhanced computed tomography (CECT) chest ...

Journal: :JAMA 2007
David R Anderson Susan R Kahn Marc A Rodger Michael J Kovacs Tim Morris Andrew Hirsch Eddy Lang Ian Stiell George Kovacs Jon Dreyer Carol Dennie Yannick Cartier David Barnes Erica Burton Susan Pleasance Chris Skedgel Keith O'Rouke Philip S Wells

CONTEXT Ventilation-perfusion (V(dot)Q(dot) lung scanning and computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) are widely used imaging procedures for the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. Ventilation-perfusion scanning has been largely replaced by CTPA in many centers despite limited comparative formal evaluations and concerns about CTPA's low sensitivity (ie, chance of...

Journal: :World journal of emergency medicine 2014
Jing-Xia Zhang Yong-Li Chen Yu-Ling Zhou Qian-Yu Guo Xian-Pei Wang

BACKGROUND Tissue factor (TF) is the initiation factor of the extrinsic coagulation pathway, and plays a critical role in the process of thrombosis. This study aimed to investigate the expression of TF and to explore their clinical effect on the pulmonary artery after acute pulmonary thromboembolism. METHODS Thirty-four Japanese white rabbits (Level II animals) supplied by Tianjin Medical Uni...

2008
Lauren Taggart Wasson

CONTEXT: Ventilation-perfusion (V(dot)Q(dot) lung scanning and computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) are widely used imaging procedures for the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. Ventilation-perfusion scanning has been largely replaced by CTPA in many centers despite limited comparative formal evaluations and concerns about CTPA's low sensitivity (ie, chance o...

Journal: :Annals of Surgery 1941

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