A cholesterol embolism (CE) is a crystal of cholesterol that has broken away from a plaque deposit inside an artery and become lodged in a smaller artery. Cholesterol emboli can restrict blood flow to ...

New pulmonary embolism guidance refines diagnosis, risk assessment, treatment, and follow-up in adult care. Read more.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . 79.5% of children in the ED had D-dimer diagnostic testing. Testing patterns and imaging yield rates for ...

A new guideline for acute pulmonary embolism developed by 10 major specialty societies introduces a novel PE clinical ...

CONSIDERABLE progress has been made in recent years in the understanding of thromboembolic disease and also in the ability to diagnose acute pulmonary embolism. Radiologists have learned to interpret ...

This Resident Journal Review focuses on pulmonary embolism (PE), a disease that remains a considerable diagnostic challenge for the emergency physician given its high risk for significant morbidity ...

A current study involving the University Hospital Bonn (UKB) has investigated which treatment strategy offers the best chances of survival in high-risk acute pulmonary embolism. The results, now ...

When you cut yourself, proteins in your blood combine with your blood cells to form clots, which are thick masses of blood tissue that help staunch the blood flow. Those clots are important—without ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ED discharge rates for acute PE visits remained consistent over time between 2012 to 2020. Outpatient management ...

It was with these considerations in mind that we undertook to examine our own experience with arterial emboli to determine what place, if any, the operation of embolectomy should play in the therapy ...