Coronary artery disease (CAD ... Rubinshtein et al performed 64-slice CT on 58 intermediate risk patients with chest pain. [18] Patients were deemed to be intermediate risk if they had chest ...

Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in your lungs. Its purpose is to find problems such as pulmonary embolisms (blood clots in your lungs), stenosis (narrowed blood vessels ...

Pulmonary embolism is the sudden blockage of a major blood vessel (artery) in the lung, usually by a blood clot. In most cases, the clots are small and aren't deadly, but they can damage the lung. But ...

Pulmonary embolism remains a diagnostic challenge, but recent advances in serologic testing (D-dimer) and improved imaging methods (multidetector computed tomographic scanning) have allowed much ...

Thoracic CT a day later showed pulmonary artery embolism in both lungs with multiple bilateral filling defects in the pulmonary arteries of the lower lobes and wedge-shaped infiltrates in the ...