A paradoxical embolism is defined as a systemic arterial embolism requiring the passage of a venous thrombus into the arterial circulatory system through a right-to-left shunt, and is commonly related to patent foramen ovale (PFO). However, coexisting pulmonary embolisms, deep vein thromboses (DVT), and multipe systemic arterial embolisms, associated with PFO, are rare. Here, we report a patien...

Deep venous thrombosis (DVT) is a serious illness sometimes causing death due to acute pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). Blood stasis of the pelvic vein is a major etiologic factor for DVT. Occasionally a large myomatous uterus can cause compression of the pelvic venous system leading to DVT. We describe a very rare case of massive pulmonary embolism in a 39-year-old woman with multiple uterine ...

background: the aim of the study is to determine the correlation between clinical and echocardiographic fi ndings and risk factors of patients with suspected acute pulmonary thromboembolism (pte) who underwent computed tomography pulmonary angiography (ctpa). materials and methods: in this cross-sectional study, 310 hospitalized patients aged >18 years with high clinical suspicion of pte referr...

responsible for 50 000 to 100 000 deaths each year in the United States. A pulmonary embolism is an obstruction of the pulmonary artery or one of its branches by a thrombus. The signs and symptoms range from massive pulmonary embolism that results in unstable hemodynamic status to a small peripheral embolus that can be asymptomatic. To aid in the delineation of the types of pulmonary embolism, ...

INTRODUCTION Entrapped thrombus in a patent foramen ovale is a rare form of right heart thromboembolism. Various treatments have been used, such as anti-coagulation and thrombolytic therapy, vena cava filter, percutaneous thrombectomy and surgical embolectomy. CASE PRESENTATION A 60-year-old Kosovan woman was admitted to our hospital with a massive bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism, entrapp...

Arnalich and colleagues reported an interesting clinical study that evaluated cell-free plasma mitochondrial and nuclear DNA concentrations in patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) [1]. They found increased circulating mitochondrial and nuclear DNA levels, as well as alterations in other cardiac biomarkers (heart-type fatty acidbinding protein and troponin I) in patients with massive PE compare...