The Medical Protection Society says lessons can be learned from the case of a patient given an incorrect risk score for pulmonary embolism and what followed.

Main pulmonary artery diameter is a prognostic indicator in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension without congenital heart disease.

Background: Research on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)-assisted support for pulmonary embolism ... failure during this period. PE, as an acute and potentially fatal vascular disease, is ...

The computed tomographic (CT) pulmonary ... shown by echocardiography. These have not been previously described but are important to recognise as they may carry important prognostic and therapeutic ...

Correspondence to Dr Pablo Garcia-Pavia, Department of Cardiology, Hospital Universitario Puerta de Hierro Manuel de Falla, Majadahonda, Madrid, 28222, Spain; pablogpavia{at}yahoo.es To understand the ...

She had inflammatory polyarthropathy and incidental pulmonary embolism ... 3 Her echocardiogram (figure 1A) revealed significant effusion around the heart with tamponade physiology on doppler and ...

Background: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is associated with a poor prognosis in diffuse lung disease (DLD ... albeit less strongly, to right ventricular dilation at echocardiography, but not to other ...

Although D-dimer results within a typical range can rule out pulmonary embolism, high results alone can’t diagnose this condition. Doctors usually need to run extra tests to make a diagnosis.