background: the aim of the study is to determine the correlation between clinical and echocardiographic fi ndings and risk factors of patients with suspected acute pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) who underwent computed tomography pulmonary angiography (ctpa). materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 310 hospitalized patients aged >18 years with high clinical suspicion of pte referr...

conclusion there is still excessive unjustified concern of pte in less trained physicians leading to excessive diagnostic work-up. loyalty to the existing guideline for management of suspected pte in educational hospitals and supervision of attending physicians could prevent overuse of ctpa. results during a 6-month period, 82 patients who underwent ctpa were included. the prevalence of pte was...

results the degree of systolic compression was found to be correlated with the depth of the mb. however, there was no correlation between the length of the mb and the degree of systolic compression. conclusion the systolic compression of the mb was influenced by the depth of the tunneled segment, not by its length. background myocardial bridging (mb) is a congenital anomaly in which a segment o...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the role of multidetector computed tomography angiography in diagnosing patients with pulmonary sequestration. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed the computed tomography studies and clinical materials of 43 patients who had undergone preoperative multidetector computed tomography angiography in our hospital and had pathologically proven pulmonary seque...

objectives to evaluate predictive value of vessel specific coronary artery calcium (cac) score in predicting obstructive coronary artery disease. patients and methods in this diagnostic test study we evaluated patients with coronary computed tomography angiography (ccta) and cac score which had been referred to two referral radiology center in tehran, iran and finally we selected 2525 patients ...

conclusions in most cases, the conus artery can be visualized in cardiac ct. a description of the conus artery should be a part of the standard clinical coronary ct angiography description. objectives to examine whether it is possible to visualize the conus artery in multi-slice computed tomography (ct). patients and methods in 79 consecutive patients (aged 56 ± 12.9 years; 13 women), 64-slice ...

Pulmonary embolism is considered as a great masquerader due to its frequent nonspecific signs and symptoms. Typically pulmonary embolism is under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed. In this study a patient with pulmonary embolism is reported in which the patient exhibited two unusual manifestations namely; right upper quadrant abdominal pain and ST-T elevation in anterior precordial leads. Due to the ...

conclusions in conclusion complementary to the previous studies our results have demonstrated that bronchial artery embolization remains as one of the most efficient procedures in managing massive hemoptysis, with minimal rate of complications. patients and methods all the patients had already been assessed by computerized tomography (ct) to localize and delineate the underlying etiology except...

OBJECTIVE Pulmonary embolism is a major cause of maternal death. The work up for suspected pulmonary embolism is complex, with many potential diagnostic options. We performed a cost analysis to evaluate which of several diagnostic strategies was the most cost-effective with the least number of deaths from pulmonary embolism. STUDY DESIGN We created a decision tree to evaluate the following st...