Pulmonary-artery catheterization aids the diagnosis and management of numerous cardiovascular ... Common early complications include ventricular arrhythmias and right bundle-branch block, ...

Saddle pulmonary embolism is where a large blood clot sits on top of, or "saddles", the main pulmonary artery at the point where the artery divides and branches into the left and right lung. Learn ...

ALTHOUGH idiopathic dilatation of the main pulmonary artery had been described in several previous reports 1–12 it was not until 1949 that Greene et al. 13 laid down criteria for the ante-mortem ...

Coronary arteries: Supply blood to the heart; Pulmonary arteries: Lead from the right side of the heart to the lungs; Carotid ...

A saddle pulmonary embolism (PE) is a rare kind of PE, named for its position in the lungs. Every type of PE needs urgent medical treatment. Learn more about the causes, risk factors, treatments ...

In normal patients, the right ventricular (RV) systolic pressure and the pulmonary artery (PA) systolic pressures are equal (15-20 mmHg), while the diastolic pressures differ, ie, the RV diastolic ...

Pulmonary artery pressure sensors are used to collect data on pulmonary artery pressure in people with chronic heart failure to allow for ongoing monitoring. Here, a pulmonary artery pressure sensor ...