An acute pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot blocks one or more vessels in the lung. In patients at moderate or high risk, the blockage can impair the heart's ability to pump blood through the ...

“In these first cases, the Vertex system was successful in safely navigating through the right heart and into the pulmonary vasculature, facilitating an efficient and effective pulmonary embolectomy ...

Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy Outcomes Not Affected by Thrombus Location Surgical pulmonary embolectomy for peripheral distribution of thrombus demonstrated positive outcomes in patients with either ...

Boston Scientific (NYSE:BSX) announced positive data from a randomized clinical trial evaluating its EKOS endovascular system.

A surgical procedure that was virtually abandoned in the 1950s because of its high mortality rates in trying to save patients with acute pulmonary embolism may actually prevent more deaths in severely ...

Mr. Simpson, a man in his late 50s had come to the office with a sprained knee. But as he told his story, it was clear that wasn’t the main ...

The introduction of pulmonary scanning with radioactive particles has aided in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and provided a means for more precise documentation of the natural history of the ...

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the American College of Cardiology (ACC) have recently released the first guideline ...

Dyspnea and hypotension developed in a 35-year-old woman about 24 hours after an apparently uncomplicated cesarean delivery at term. The patient was acutely distressed and fully conscious, with a ...

Göttingen, Germany - Use of thrombolysis in pulmonary embolism should be extended to hemodynamically stable patients with submassive pulmonary embolism, a new study shows. Writing in the October 10 ...