“The initial management can be done in the primary care setting,” said Sai Sunkara, MD, a pulmonologist with UI Health in ...

JAMA Internal Medicine published an article, Projected Lifetime Cancer Risks From Current Computed Tomography Imaging, that uses risk modeling to suggest that radiation from Computed Tomography (CT) ...

Symptomatic children may have pulmonary embolism and/or deep vein thrombosis at similar rates to adults, despite current literature.

The schema newly classified 15.4% of persons without airflow obstruction as having COPD by minor diagnostic category, Surya P ...

Learn to identify when leg pain signals a potentially fatal blood clot requiring immediate attention, plus risk factors and ...

A new all-in-one pulsed field ablation catheter system demonstrated durable pulmonary vein isolation and a promising safety profile, with no device-related events at 1 year, a speaker reported.The ...

A man wanted on multiple warrants in Connecticut and an extraditable warrant in New York was charged with DUI last Friday when state police said he allegedly hit a motorist on Interstate 95 and ...

CT analysis has helped to describe benefits and anatomical limitations for cryoballoon ablation. Cryoballoon ablation is an established method for pulmonary vein (PV) isolation. Preprocedural imaging ...

During the procedure, dye is injected into a vein in your arm and travels to the blood vessels ... It can be performed using invasive or noninvasive techniques. The gold standard is CT pulmonary ...

CT pulmonary angiography ... called a tracer, injected into a vein in your arm. As the tracer moves through your blood, doctors can monitor your blood flow (perfusion) and compare it to your ...