Items tagged “pulmonary embolism”
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Pulmonary embolism with lung infarction
Published
17 Jan 2011
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Hampton hump
Hampton hump refers to a dome-shaped, pleural-based opacification in the lung most commonly due to pulmonary embolism and lung infarction (it can also result from other causes of pulmonary infarction (e.g. vascular occlusion due to angioinvasive aspergillosis).
Although uncommon, it can be seen...
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Pulmonary emboli
Published
28 May 2011
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Pulmonary embolism
Published
20 Apr 2012
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Hampton humps: on MRI
Published
30 Jul 2012
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MRI
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Pulmonary embolism with right atrial thrombus
Published
18 Feb 2013
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Pulmonary embolism
Published
15 Dec 2013
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Pulmonary embolism
Published
09 Jun 2015
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Knuckle sign (pulmonary embolism)
The knuckle sign refers to the abrupt tapering or cutoff of a pulmonary artery secondary to a pulmonary embolus (PE). It is better visualized on CT pulmonary angiography (CTPA) than chest x-ray. This is an important ancillary finding in pulmonary embolism, and often associated with the Fleischne...
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Geneva score
The Geneva score is a clinical decision rule used to estimate the pre-test probability of pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients in which this diagnosis was considered. The criteria were originally published by the clinical team of the Geneva University Hospital in 2001 1, and revised and simplifie...
Case
Saddle pulmonary embolism
Published
11 May 2017
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Wells criteria for pulmonary embolism
The Wells criteria for pulmonary embolism is a risk stratification score and clinical decision rule to estimate the probability for acute pulmonary embolism (PE) in patients in which history and examination suggests acute PE is a diagnostic possibility. It provides a pre-test probability which, ...
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Massive pulmonary embolism
A massive pulmonary embolism (PE) represents the most severe manifestation of venous thromboembolic disease and causes acute right ventricular outflow obstruction which can be fatal. The source is sometimes a clinically silent free-floating lower limb thrombus originating from the soleal intramu...
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McConnell's sign (echocardiography)
The McConnell's sign describes a regional pattern of acute right ventricular dysfunction on transthoracic echocardiography first observed in a cohort of patients with acute pulmonary thromboembolism. In contrast to the global wall motion abnormalities observed in chronic right ventricular dysfun...
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60/60 sign (echocardiography)
The 60/60 sign in echocardiography refers to the coexistence of a truncated right ventricular outflow tract acceleration time (AT <60 ms) with a pulmonary arterial systolic pressure (PASP) of less than 60 mmHg (but more than 30 mmHg). In the presence of right ventricular failure, it is consisten...
Case
Chronic pulmonary embolism
Published
16 Feb 2020
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Pulmonary emboli in an infant
Published
23 Jul 2020
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Incidental pulmonary embolism
Published
04 Aug 2020
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Acute pulmonary embolism
Published
31 Aug 2020
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Pulmonary embolism
Published
31 Oct 2020
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