Emergency physicians are still too often turning to CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) to evaluate suspected pulmonary embolism (PE), recent data from two US metropolitan areas indicate. Of more than 1.8 ...

At the same time, US deaths from pulmonary embolism dropped only from 12.3 to 11.9 per 100 000. Age-adjusted fatality from pulmonary embolism for hospitalized patients declined by a third, "from ...

Several institutions reported a seven to 13-fold increase in use of CTPA by 2006, and nationally there was an 11-fold rise in chest CT angiography from 2001 to 2006 in the Medicare fee-for-service ...

Reversed halo signs manifest in septic pulmonary embolism due to IV drug use ... findings of septic PE on chest CT scans, and confirmation of infection--59.7% (37/62) ...

CT scan with contrast or MRI should be performed if an ... followed by IJT, anaerobic sepsis, and pulmonary septic emboli. ... The syndrome is most often seen in previously healthy adolescents ...

The differential diagnosis of CT findings included, but was not limited to, cavitary pulmonary metastases, necrobiotic lung nodules (seen in rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease), ...

Patients presenting with low-risk pulmonary embolism are managed in different ways based on CT scan findings and not clinical risk factors, according to study results published in JAMA Network ...

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Software that uses artificial intelligence to flag and triage cases of pulmonary embolism found in chest CT scans has been cleared by the FDA, Israeli radiology AI company Aidoc announced on May 15.

If a person goes to the emergency room when a pulmonary embolism is suspected, they would likely be given a CT scan almost immediately. “The CT scan is an image that’s done with dye that ...