OBJECTIVE To determine the ability of conventional and Doppler echocardiography to distinguish between minor, acute massive, and subacute massive pulmonary embolism in patients with confirmed pulmonary embolism. DESIGN Prospective study of a consecutive series of 47 patients with confirmed pulmonary embolism. SETTING Department of internal medicine, university clinic. PATIENTS 11 patients...

Although dental foci can be sources of bacteremia and bacterial endocarditis, hematogenous spread of infection presented with septic pulmonary embolism apparently is rare. The occurrence of septic pulmonary embolism in patients with periodontal disease without suppurative thrombophlebitis of the great vessels of the neck is well documented but to our knowledge, there is no report on septic pulm...

Úvod: Pľúcna embólia je relatívne časté a nebezpečné ochorenie s variabilnou manifestáciou od benignej až po fatálnu. Autori v retrospektívnej štúdii prezentujú, ako sa počas posledných 25 rokov menil výskyt, diagnostika liečba pľúcnej embólie. Metódy: vychádzali z dokumentácie 860 (432 mužov) pacientov potvrdenou pľúcnou embóliou, ktorí boli hospitalizovaní čas...

Pulmonary embolism is considered as a great masquerader due to its frequent nonspecific signs and symptoms. Typically pulmonary embolism is under-diagnosed or over-diagnosed. In this study a patient with pulmonary embolism is reported in which the patient exhibited two unusual manifestations namely; right upper quadrant abdominal pain and ST-T elevation in anterior precordial leads. Due to the ...

introduction: pulmonary embolism (pe) is a common lethal disease that its clinical symptoms may be seen in many other diseases. computed tomography pulmonary angiography (ctpa) is a valuable diagnostic modality for detection of pe. in addition, it can accurately detect the other diseases with clinical symptoms similar to pe. the aim of this study is to evaluate the frequency of pe and nonemboli...

The management of patients with acute pulmonary embolism is made challenging by its wide spectrum of clinical presentation and outcome, which is mainly related to patient haemodynamic status and right ventricular overload. Mechanical embolic obstruction and neurohumorally mediated pulmonary vasoconstriction are responsible for right ventricular overload. The pathophysiology of acute pulmonary e...

Background. Pulmonary embolism is a common and potentially lethal condition. Most patients who die from massive pulmonary embolism do so within the first few hours of the event. The clinical manifestations of pulmonary embolism are nonspecific, which makes the diagnosis difficult. Case Report. We present a case of massive pulmonary embolism presenting as an acute surgical abdomen that underwent...

BACKGROUND the incidence of pulmonary embolism increases with age but the 'classical' presentation of acute pulmonary embolism may not occur in older persons. OBJECTIVES to compare the clinical presentation of younger and older patients with acute pulmonary embolism. DESIGN retrospective identification of 60 consecutive cases of spiral computed tomography confirmed acute pulmonary embolism ...

The natural course of acute pulmonary embolism depends primarily on whether the embolism has been detected and treated [1-4]. The haemodynamic severity of acute pulmonary embolism largely depends on the previous state of the cardiopuLmonary system in patients without any previous cardiopulmonary di ease [1, 5], the degree of haemodynamic severity (e.g. that of pulmonary hypertension) depends ex...

INTRODUCTION Acute pulmonary embolism has varied presentations ranging from asymptomatic, incidentally discovered emboli to massive embolism, causing immediate death. Tumor embolism is a rare but unique complication of malignancies. This uncommon catastrophe of a malignant tumor in a young patient, culminating as a pulmonary embolism, is being reported for the first time. CASE PRESENTATION A ...