PURPOSE OF REVIEW Pulmonary embolism remains one of the leading causes of cardiovascular mortality. The wide range of reported mortality rates reflects heterogeneity in comorbidity and severity of pulmonary embolism. Optimizing risk stratification to prognose pulmonary embolism patients appears to be important to improve management, treatment and clinical outcome. RECENT FINDINGS Hemodynamic ...

    Background: Since pulmonary angiography is the only non-invasive method for diagnosing pulmonary embolism, the use of radiation reduction methods without affecting the quality of images seems necessary. One of the simplest reasons for unnecessarily increasing of patient exposure is repetitive imaging due to poor image quality. Therefore, it is necessary to identify and ...

the mean percentage of cryptogenic strokes among ischemic strokes is 31%, of which one-third may be associated with patent foramen ovale. the foramen ovale is required for blood flow through the fetal atrial septum.  it is formed as of the fourth week of gestation, and this leads to right-left interatrial shunt that allows the passage of oxygenated blood to systemic circulation. in 75% of cases...

Euglycemic diabetic ketoacidosis (Eu-DKA) is a rare but life-threatening complication in patient treated with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i). A 71-year-old female empagliflozin presented to the ED shortness of breath. Diagnosis acute pulmonary embolism was confirmed initially. She conservatively subcutaneous enoxaparin 60 mg bidaily. and oxygen therapy.  Respiratory distress...

Pulmonary embolism is a common and potentially life threatening condition. Delays in pulmonary embolism diagnosis represent an important problem. It is crucial to have early diagnosis of pulmonary embolism if one wishes to reduce its complication. We retrospecttively reviewed our patients who visited our emergency department with a final diagnosis of pulmonary embolism. We found that delayed di...

Ischaemic stroke is a sudden neurological disorder caused by localised cerebral ischaemia and persistent infarction. Occlusion of large arteries due to atherothrombosis, embolism (i.e., embolic infarction), no thrombotic occlusion in small, deep lacunar stenosis proximal hypotension leading decreased blood flow arterial supply zones are the most common causes ischemic hemodynamic stroke). It no...