Clinical characteristics of acute pulmonary thromboembolism in Korea

The value of computed tomographic obstruction index in the identification of massive pulmonary thromboembolism

“…However, its presence indicates a severe decrease in hemodynamic capacity. Pleuritic chest pain develops as a result of pleural irritation due to pulmonary infarct arising from distally located emboli, while retrosternal chest pain suggests right ventricular ischemia (15). Massive PTE is a rapidly developing, life-threatening disease that results in death if it is left undiagnosed (16).…”

Quantitative evaluation of chronic pulmonary thromboemboli by multislice CT compared with pulsed Tissue Doppler Imaging and its relationship with brain natriuretic peptide

“…Chronic pulmonary arterial thromboembolism (CPATE) often causes right ventricular (RV) pressure overload [1] and RV pressure overload has a strong association with increased mortality of patients with pulmonary hypertension [2][3][4][5][6][7][8]. But the relationship between the degrees of CPATE and RV pressure overload is not clear.…”

Incidence and Propagation of Infrageniculate Deep Venous Thrombosis in Trauma Patients

“…autopsy, venography, compression duplex ultrasound, color flow Doppler imaging, magnetic resonance), 8,9,11,12,16,18,19,29,30 the extent of the examination, 12,31,32 the skill of the technician performing the examination, the experience of physicians interpreting the study, 19 the patient population being studied, associated risk factors, and prophylactic measures employed. [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]33,34 With these considerations in mind, reports of infrageniculate DVTs in trauma patients range from 3.8% to 40% 1,9,11 with propagation in different veins below the knee in 10% 9 and suprageniculate extension in 4.7% to 10.0%. 9,11 In the highest risk trauma patients the incidence of infrageniculate DVTs has been reported to be 14.1%, with suprageniculate propagation occurring in 4.7%.…”

“…T he incidence, diagnosis, treatment, and complications of deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in surgical (especially total hip and knee arthroplasty) patients, 1,2 medical (especially cancer) patients, [3][4][5][6] and vascular lab referral populations 7,8 has been extensively reported.…”