Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Low-risk patients with and without concerning CT findings had comparable clinical outcomes. More patients with ...

If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism (PE), a CT scan is the gold standard of imaging techniques. This painless scan uses intravenous (IV) contrast, a type of dye, to help the doctor ...

Of approximately 250,000 Americans diagnosed with acute pulmonary embolism, or PE, in emergency departments each year, most are hospitalized. But Michigan Medicine research, published in JAMA Network ...

American Journal of Roentgenology research finds that the reversed halo sign is an early and reliable imaging finding observed in most cases of CT-based diagnosis of septic pulmonary embolism ...

While screening for possible pulmonary emboli using pulmonary CT angiography, a new study shows that radiologists can effectively lower the patient radiation dose by approximately 44 percent, and ...

The routine use of computed tomography (CT) pulmonary angiography for the detection of pulmonary emboli has led to overdiagnosis of the condition, according to a new study published online July 2 in ...

ALTHOUGH sickle-cell disease has been associated with vascular thrombosis and tissue infarction 1 sickle states have only recently been associated with similar phenomena. Splenic infarctions, 2–5 ...

THE diagnosis of pulmonary embolism continues to present a challenge to the clinician. Massive pulmonary embolism is often diagnosed correctly ante mortem and is identified with relative ease by the ...

In a recent study published in the Radiology journal, researchers performed the longitudinal evaluation of chest computerized tomography (CT) findings along with pulmonary function in coronavirus ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) is a blockage in one of the arteries in your lungs. Arteries are the blood vessels that carry blood away from the heart to the organs, muscles, and other tissue. Most of the ...