Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is part of a larger clinicopathological entity, venous thromboembolism. It is also a complex, multifactorial disorder divided into four major disease processes including venous thrombosis, thrombus in transit, acute pulmonary embolism, and pulmonary circulation reconstruction. Even when treated, some patients develop chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension....

Computed tomography pulmonary angiography (CTPA) has become the gold standard imaging technique in the evaluation of patients with suspected pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE).1 PTE – acute or chronic – is confirmed on CTPA by filling defects in the pulmonary arteries. Several factors, whether technical or diseaseor patient-related, can result in a suboptimal, low-quality CTPA, which can be misint...

Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a major health problem with significant mortality and morbidity. It is a common and lethal condition. PTE and deep vein thrombosis (DVT) known collectively as venous thromboembolism (VTE) encompass one disease entity. Among cardiovascular diseases, VTE along with stroke and myocardial infarction rank as three big cardiovascular killers. PTE implies occlusion o...

Beside neonatal respiratory distress syndrome, secondary surfactant deficiency may occur in patients with mature lungs. Recent studies revealed quantitative and qualitative changes of lung surfactant in pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) concerning the total phospholipids content in BAL fluid, alterations in surfactant phospholipids classes and a large-to-small aggregates ratio. Reduced expression...

Objective To identify pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) using the thrombus attenuation value on unenhanced computed tomography (CT).

In childhood, pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is an uncommonbut potentially life-threatening disease. The greater numbers of venous thromboembolism (VTE) are complications of underlying risk factors such as malignancies, chemotherapy (L-asparaginase), and central venous catheter. We report a patient with acute lymphoblastic leukemia and PTE, who presented with near-syncope, and was successfully...

In contrast to other internal organs, pulmonary arterial hypoperfusion does not always show ischemic changes in the lung parenchyma. Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE)-related lung injury is extremely rare except in the case of pulmonary infarctions, in which PTE occasionally causes necrosis of the parenchyma. We describe the case of an 86-year-old woman who presented with respiratory failure and ...

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...

Pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) is a fatal condition that may rarely occur due to complications of coronary catheter insertion. In this case report, a 41-year-old male was presented 48 hours after radiofrequency catheter ablation(RFCA) for the management of Wolf-Parkinson-White syndromewith acute onset of dyspnea, hemoptysis, and chest pain. The physical examination revealed coarse crackles in ...