Background and objectives: it is well established that pulmonary thromboembolism is frequent in patients with trauma, in this study we compared pulmonary thromboembolism before and after the autopsy in patients with trauma Methods: In this cross-sectional study, the patients being referred to three of teaching hospitals of Tehran from March 2015 to March ...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is an effective treatment for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH), but is a technically challenging operation for cardiothoracic surgeons. Starting a new program allows an opportunity to define a learning curve for PTE. METHODS A retrospective case review was performed of 134 consecutive PTEs performed from 1998 to 2016 at a s...

A 30 years old male patient was referred to our hospital with a diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism due to thorax-computerized tomography (CT) angiography, revealing a thrombus totally occluding left main pulmonary artery. The lesion was evaluated as tumoural mass. Positron emission tomography (PET)-CT revealed pathologic uptake at pulmonary artery mass. Due to localization of tumour, left p...

Introduction: The prognostic role of SCUBE1 serum levels in PTE has best of our knowledge, not been previously investigated. Materials and methods: The study included 49 patients diagnosed as having acute PTE. This singlecentre prospective study was conducted between Jan 2015 and 2016.The diagnosis of PTE was reached through spiral angio computed thorax tomography. Serum SCUBE1 was measured on ...

Pulmonary thromboendarterectomy (PTE) is a complicated surgical procedure that is an effective treatment in reducing pulmonary artery pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance for chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension. Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension usually results from incomplete lysis of a large organized thrombus in the main pulmonary artery and secondary branches, le...

To the Editor: lot formation within a deep vein is called deep vein thrombosis (DVT). It occurs in about 100 persons per 100,000 population each year in the United States and leads to about 600,000 pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) cases and also causes 60,000 deaths annually (1, 2). For many years, unfractionated heparin (UFH) and warfarin have been used for treatment of DVT and prevention of PT...

Primary angiosarcoma of pulmonary artery is a very rare lesion. We present a case of primary angiosarcoma that was initially misdiagnosed as a subacute massive pulmonary thromboembolism in a 30-year-old man. This rare disease is usually indistinguishable from acute or chronic thromboembolic disease of the pulmonary arteries. The clinical and radiological findings of pulmonary artery angiosarcom...

Acute pancreatitis is an inflammatory disease often associated with local and systemic complications. Portosplenic and splanchnic vascular complications of acute pancreatitis are common, but extrasplanchnic vessel thrombosis is less commonly seen. Among them, pulmonary thromboembolism is a very rare complication to be encountered with. We report four cases of acute pulmonary thromboembolism in ...

Pulmonary thromboembolism after distal ulna and radius fractures surgery: A case report a literature review