Orthopaedic patients are at particularly high risk for pulmonary embolism. There has been a trend recently toward overdiagnosis of pulmonary embolism; thus, evaluation of the nature of a clinically relevant pulmonary embolism is needed, as is assessment of the timing, risks, and outcomes of therapeutic anticoagulation in surgical patients. Recent literature shows the incidence of pulmonary embo...

Pulmonary embolism is a serious complication, which is well known in patients undergoing total hip or total knee arthroplasty or lower extremity fracture surgery. But, there are few literatures concerning pulmonary embolism after upper extremity surgery. Pulmonary embolism after minor upper extremity fracture surgery is extremely rare. We report a case of 66-year-old female patient that develop...

Pulmonary embolism is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular related death beside myocardial infarction and stroke. Contrary to stroke and myocardial infarction, diagnosis of pulmonary embolism is considered to be much more difficult and complicated compare with the treatment once diagnosis is confirmed. Multiple diagnostic studies including clinical scoring, serum biomarker and diagnostic...

The Authors Reply It is very well known that the mortality in acute pulmonary embolism patients presenting with cardiac arrest is very high. One of the aims of our manuscript is to emphasize that thrombolytic therapy is a lifesaving choice of treatment even in resuscitated massive pulmonary embolism patients. The other aims of our manuscript are to highlight the fact that massive pulmonary embo...

In patients who present with pulmonary embolism, right-heart thrombus is a rare condition that is associated with increased mortality rates, compared with pulmonary embolism alone. Thrombolytic therapy has been associated with a survival benefit in previous studies of pulmonary embolism arising from right-heart thrombus. However, older patients have been excluded from such studies because throm...

AIM The Authors describe diagnosis, treatment and therapy of deep venous thrombosis in Emergency Department following the last guidelines indications. DISCUSSION Deep venous thrombosis of the legs, ranges from asymptomatic, incidentally discovered emboli to massive embolism causing immediate death. Chronic sequelae of venous thromboembolism (deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism) incl...

Pulmonary edema is rare in patients with pulmonary embolism and to our knowledge has not been described in association with thrombolytic therapy. We describe a patient with massive pulmonary embolism in whom the adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) developed shortly after a course of streptokinase therapy. The possible association between streptokinase therapy or pulmonary embolism and AR...

The pulmonary veins (PVs) are the most proximal source of arterial thromboembolism. Pulmonary vein thrombosis (PVT) is a rare but potentially lethal disease; its incidence is unclear, as most of the literature includes case reports. It most commonly occurs as a complica-tion of malignancy, post lung surgery, or atrial fibrillation and can be idiopathic in some cases. Most patients with PVT are ...

Pulmonary infarction is an infrequent complication of pulmonary embolism due to the dual blood supply of the lung. Autopsy studies have reported cavitation to occur in only 4-5% of all pulmonary infarctions with an even smaller proportion of these cases becoming secondarily infected. Patients with infected cavitating pulmonary infarction classically present with fever, positive sputum culture, ...

Pulmonary embolism is a frequent condition, related with high mortality. Frequency of pulmonary embolism episodes has been related with several meteorological factors. The aim of the study was to analyze the influence of meteorological factors on the occurrence of pulmonary embolism in male and female patients. Medical data of patients hospitalized at our institution in 2007-2008 was analyzed. ...