AIMS To determine if massive pulmonary platelet thromboembolism is a common cause of peroperative death following liver transplantation; and to compare the incidence of this event with patients dying after non-transplantation procedures. METHODS Necropsy tissues from all patients dying within 10 days of operation during the past three and a half years were studied (six liver transplantations ...

Pulmonary veno-occlusive disease has recently been recognized as a distinct pathological entity and a cause of pulmonary arterial hypertension. Twenty previously reported cases and a new patient are here reviewed. The majority presented with breathlessness and in the early stages of the disease, when the abnormal signs were not striking, some patients were wrongly diagnosed as suffering from an...

Background:The effect of incidental pulmonary embolism (PE) on long-term prognosis in cancer patients is unclear. This study assessed the characteristics and venous thromboembolism (VTE) PE identified by oncologists survival with cancer.

A 76-year-old woman, diagnosed 5 years previously with an asymptomatic mediastinal bronchogenic cyst, was referred to our department as the mass had grown slightly larger. Contrast-enhanced computed tomography and magnetic resonance imaging scans revealed an azygous vein aneurysm with a pulmonary arterial thromboembolism. The patient was treated with heparin for 5 days, and anticoagulation ther...

This study aimed to identify the clinical management of pulmonary thromboembolism in literature. The methodology selected for carrying out this research is an integrative literature review study, where a survey data was carried scientific bases: LILACS and SCIELO. results showed that starts after diagnosis, initially, diagnosis confirmation condition treatment represent challenge physicians who...

The term venous thromboembolism refers to a spectrum of disease that includes deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism. Both deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism are often clinically silent and thus difficult to diagnose, which leads to a substantial delay in treatment that results in high rates of morbidity and mortality. The purposes of this article are to help physicians determ...

The new coronavirus 2019-nCov or SARS-Cov-2 is responsible for the most important pandemic in 21st century: disease (COVID-19).
 infection elicits a hyper-coagulable state, conditioning worse outcome these patients. pathophysiology of exaggerated coagulation activation patients still unknown, and probably involves several mechanisms, different from those involved sepsis-associated coagulop...