1255 May 2014 C HRONIC thromboembolic pulmonary disease is an important cause of severe pulmonary hypertension and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. At 2-yr follow-up, 3.8% of survivors of an acute pulmonary embolic event develop chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) defined as a persistent mean pulmonary arterial pressure greater than 25 mmHg for 6 months ...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the feasibility of CT pulmonary angiography for identification of naturally occurring pulmonary thromboembolism in dogs using predefined diagnostic criteria and to assess the ability of echocardiography, cardiac troponins, D-dimers and kaolin-activated thromboelastography to predict the presence of pulmonary thromboembolism in dogs. METHODS Twelve dogs with immune-media...

A 76-year-old man complaining of exertional dyspnea was admitted to our hospital. Chest computed tomography revealed bilateral diffuse ground-glass opacities and small nodules. A transbronchial lung biopsy revealed tumor cell emboli in the pulmonary arteries. The patient was diagnosed with gastric adenocarcinoma using an endoscopic stomach biopsy; however, the interstitial opacities progressive...

Venous malformations have static venous lakes that predispose to spontaneous venous thrombosis within the malformation due to its low-flow static state. Thrombi of varying sizes can then embolize continually into the pulmonary arterial circulation, and occlude and narrow elastic pulmonary arteries causing chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH). Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PT...

Victor Pretorius, MBchB Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery University of California San Diego La Jolla, CA Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is defined as a mean pulmonary artery pressure 25 mm Hg and pulmonary artery wedge pressure 15 mm Hg in the presence of occlusive thrombi within the pulmonary arteries. Surgical pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is considered the be...

background: the use of thrombolytic agents in the treatment of hemodynamically stable patients with acute submassive pulmonary embolism (pte) remains controversial. we, therefore, conducted this study to compare the effect of thrombolytic plus anticoagulation versus anticoagulation alone on early death and adverse outcome following submassive pte. methods: w e conducted a study of patients with...

A man in his thirties was admitted due to new onset dyspnea, right-sided pleuritic chest pain and non-massive hemoptysis since 4 days before admission. On arrival, he was febrile and tachypneic with normal blood pressure. Bibasilar decreased breath sounds and vocal vibration, prominently in the right lung, and 2cm difference in diameter of the left leg were the remarkable findings. Blunting of ...

Introduction: COVID-19 is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered Coronavirus. Most of the infected people will go through it with mild to moderate respiratory symptoms and recover without any specific treatment. Older medical issues, such as cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, chronic pulmonary malignant diseases are at higher risk for severe form disease. Case report: Female patient...