Germ cell tumours tend to affect young adults and with advanced treatments achieve more than 90% cure rates. Over the years cisplatin has significantly improved the relapse free survival in these patients, hence forming an essential component of chemotherapy regimes. But, the thrombo-embolic complications suffered with cisplatin significantly affect the quality of life in these young patients.W...

background: hyponatremia has poor outcomes in other cardiopulmonary disorders, but its predictive value in predicting mortality of patients with acute pulmonary embolism is unknown. so, we evaluate the mortality of inpatients diagnosed with pulmonary embolism (pe) who had hyponatremia at the time of admission. materials and methods: by conducting a cohort study in patients with acute pulmonary ...

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...

Chronic thrombo-embolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) remains a severe disabling disease causing a significant amount of mortality and morbidity worldwide. The incidence and severity of this condition is quite obscure. The initial inciting event, the reason of progression, the natural history of the disease and the predictors of adverse outcomes are not yet adequately clarified. From the India...

Abraham, Salzberg, and Balter (1954) have called pulmonary thrombo-embolism the commonest chest disease of adult patients in hospital. Routine necropsy series indicate its incidence to be as high as 25% (T'owbin, 1954). To the chagrin of clinicians its ubiquity is matched by the difficulties encountered in its antemortem diagnosis. The classical syndrome of chest pain, haemoptysis, friction rub...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary embolism is considered dangerous form of thrombo-embolic venous disease contracted by 25000 people annually with around 30% deaths. Accurate diagnosis of the disease and treatment could reduce mortality rate by several per cent. Discernment of ailment is obstructed by variety of clinical picture. Suspicion of pulmonary embolism is verified by diagnostic patterns, among whic...

Citation: Ehab M Esheiba and Ani Purushothaman. “Recurrent Venous Thrombo-Embolism in a Young Adult Female: Case Report with Review of Literature”. EC Cardiology 2.3 (2015): 134-140. Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a condition including deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary embolism (PE). It remains a common cause of mortality and morbidity in hospitalized or bedridden patients, as well as i...

conclusion ped software of dual-source ct combined with perfusion imaging can significantly improve the detection rate of peripheral pulmonary embolism. results ctpa images revealed 50 (7.81%) segmental and 56 (4.38%) sub-segmental pulmonary embolisms, while the ped images showed 68 (10.63%) segmental and 94 (7.34%) sub-segmental pulmonary embolisms. thus, the detection rate on ped images for p...