Items tagged “pulmonary embolism”

Mercury embolism ​is a rare condition caused by the embolism of elemental mercury secondary to suicidal or accidental intravenous injection 1,4. Pathology Etiology Mercury embolism is primarily from intravenous injection of elemental mercury although it has rarely been seen secondary to inges...

The YEARS criteria is a diagnostic algorithm that determines the risk of pulmonary embolism (PE) derived from three items in the Wells score that are most predictive of PE1. Unlike the Wells score, it uses a variable D-dimer threshold based off clinical pre-test probability. The YEARS criteria i...

N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate pulmonary embolism is a potentially life-threatening complication that can arise following the use of the tissue glue, butyl-cyanoacrylate, for endoscopic sclerotherapy to treat variceal bleeding. Epidemiology Sclerosis with biological glue (butyl cyanoacrylate) is curr...