Pulmonary embolism is a disease associated with significant prevalence. Incidence of venous thromboembolism in countries Europe 100–200 cases per 100 thousand year. Annual morbidity for the United States 71–117 000. Surgical pulmonary thrombectomy an effective method treatment, however, remains ambiguous due to small number multicenter studies. In this case report result surgical treatment pati...

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...

OBJECTIVE To review the recent advances in management of acute venous thromboembolism. DATA SOURCES Articles and published reviews on venous thromboembolism, pulmonary embolism and deep vein thrombosis. SUMMARY OF REVIEW Acute venous thromboembolism describes a group of disorders that include venous thrombosis (usually deep vein thrombosis) and pulmonary thromboembolism. Ultrasound suppleme...

Intimal sarcoma of pulmonary artery is a disease easily misdiagnosed as acute or chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Although the disease is rarely seen, life-saving surgical treatment can be applied if correctly diagnosed. We report a case of 69-year-old woman with clinical presentation of progressive dyspnea received medical treatment because pulmonary embol ism was initially diagnosed. But CT...

OBJECTIVE High baseline YKL-40 is associated with later development of ischemic stroke, but not with myocardial infarction. Whether high YKL-40 levels are associated with increased risk of venous thromboembolism is presently unknown. We tested the hypothesis that observationally and genetically high YKL-40 is associated with increased risk of venous thromboembolism in the general population. ...

Air travel is implicated as a predisposing factor for thromboembolism, which at times can have catastrophic consequences. We present three cases who developed deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and subsequent pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) after transatlantic air travel.

Natural History Statistics Older statistics estimate that in the United States, acute pulmonary thromboembolism afflicts 500 000 to 600 000 persons annually and is either a primary or secondary cause of death in 150 000 to 200 000 of these individuals.1,2 Extrapolation of a population-based study from data accumulated in 1985 through 1986 in Worcester, Mass, suggests that each year there are '1...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To examine the hypothesis that nitric oxide (NO) inhalation improves hemodynamics and gas exchange in patients with chronic pulmonary thromboembolism after pulmonary thromboendarterectomy. DESIGN Prospective crossover clinical study. SETTING : Surgical ICU in a national education and research hospital. PATIENTS : Seven patients (mean age +/- SD, 54 +/- 11 years) who under...