High plasma factor-VIIIc concentration, presence of factor-V 1691 G-A (FVL) and prothrombin20210A (PT20210A) mutations were shown to be significant risk factors for venous thromboembolism (VTE) and recurrent VTE. The objective of this study was to investigate the role of these thrombotic risk factors in the severity of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE). The plasma concentrations of factor VIIIc, ...

SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infection is a current public health problem that has been shown to cause multiple complications, including pulmonary thromboembolism. The first presented case 59-year-old woman with history of COPD, paroxysmal atrial fibrillation and COVID-19 in September 2020, consultation December 2020 for atypical chest pain suspected PE, AngioCT vessels was performed negative emboli, ...

A 56-year-old man underwent surgery to repair an open left tibial fracture. At the end of the surgery, he exhibited haemodynamic instability requiring an increased epinephrine dose. The situation was life-threatening, and the patient was at risk for pulmonary thromboembolism. Although surgery is a contraindication to thrombolysis, we performed intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase and used a ...

Antiphospholipid syndrome (APS) is an acquired systemic autoimmune disorder characterized by a combination of clinical criteria, including vascular thrombosis or pregnancy morbidity and elevated antiphospholipid antibody titers. It is one of the causes of deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism that can be critical due to the mortality risk. Overall recurrence of thromboembolism is very low...

Introduction: Hoarseness of voice is a very common condition and is caused by recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy. Many possible causes of unilateral vocal cord paralysis are known, including malignant or less often benign tumors, iatrogenic injury, inflammation, or post radiation fibrosis causing nerve palsy due to encasement. Cardiovocal syndrome or Ortner’s syndrome is hoarseness due to left rec...

BACKGROUND There are few population-based data regarding the effectiveness of inferior vena cava filter use in the prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism. OBJECTIVE To determine the 1-year cumulative incidence of rehospitalization for venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism among patients with thromboembolism treated with a vena cava filter compared with the incidence in a control popul...

The presence of right heart thromboemboli complicating pulmonary thromboemboli carries with it an increased mortality rate compared to pulmonary thromboemboli alone, but little is known about the optimal management of this difficult clinical situation. We report a case of bilateral pulmonary thromboembolism with right heart thrombi treated successfully with thrombolysis with tenecteplase.

We read with interest the article by CHUNG et al. [1] about the risk of pulmonary thromboembolism in asthmatic patients. This nationwide population cohort study suggests that the risk of developing pulmonary thromboembolism significantly is increased in asthmatic patients compared to those of the general population, with a multivariable-adjusted hazard ratio of 3.24 (95% CI 1.74–6.01). The auth...

A fifty-five-year-old male patient underwent total laryngectomy, bilateral modified radical neck dissection, and primary voice restoration for squamous cell carcinoma of the supraglottic larynx. During surgery the left internal jugular vein was found to be thrombosed and, therefore, ligated and resected. In the early postoperative period, pulmonary thromboembolism was suspected and confirmed by...

A 79-year-old woman had a primary tumor of the pulmonary artery, which was initially diagnosed as chronic pulmonary thromboembolism. Multislice angio-computed tomography showed a solid mass in the right pulmonary artery. Radical resection of the tumor was achieved by right pneumonectomy via a transsternal transpericardial approach. The patient was alive and free of disease 36 months after surgery.