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...

Although pulmonary artery angiosarcoma is rare, it can be misdiagnosed as pulmonary embolism because of its similar clinical and diagnostic features. The diagnosis is often delayed and the misdiagnosis brings unnecessary treatment. Because we made a wrong diagnosis of pulmonary artery angiosarcoma as an acute pulmonary embolism, we did thrombolytic therapy which could be dangerous to the patien...

for Acute Pulmonary Embolism To the Editor: We read with great interest a review paper titled “Acute Pulmonary Embolism, Part II: Risk Stratification, Treatment, and Prevention” by Goldhaber and associates in the December 2003 issue of the journal.1 The strategies for acute pulmonary embolism in their review are anticoagulation, inferior vena caval filters, thrombolysis, and embolectomy. They m...

Massive pulmonary embolism is unusual in young people. We present a case of massive pulmonary embolism in a teenage Chinese patient. Initially he presented to the emergency department with dyspnoea and fever. Influenza B was diagnosed during his four-day stay in the paediatric ward. One week later he suddenly collapsed and presented to the emergency department with chest pain, syncope and dyspn...

Aim: Pulmonary embolism is a potentially life-threatening cardiovascular disease frequently encountered in emergency departments. The computed tomography pulmonary angiography the imaging modality of choice diagnosis embolism. This study aimed to examine effects clinical findings and treatment methods on prognosis mortality by examining patients diagnosed with acute department.Methods: In this ...

Pulmonary embolism is one of the reversible causes death. Simultaneous diagnostic procedures are beneficial for successfully resuscitating patients brought to emergency department as an arrest after pulmonary embolism. Ultrasonography few be performed on unstable patient during resuscitation and a direct guide treatment. We followed passage thrombus from inferior vena cava right atrium in ultra...

Abstract Background Pulmonary tumor embolism is a rare entity that can arise from wide variety of neoplasms. It initially manifest as pulmonary with right heart failure and be refractory to thrombolytic therapy. Cholangiocarcinoma malignancy arises the epithelium biliary tree, representing 3% all gastrointestinal malignancies; being intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma second most common liver after...