Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a condition where blood clots develop usually in the deep veins of the legs. Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when these clots break away and block the pulmonary artery.

This transcript has been edited for clarity. Vallerie McLaughlin, MD: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this Medscape InDiscussion podcast. Today we're talking about chronic thromboembolic pulmonary ...

Overreliance on D-dimer testing and similarity to other conditions may mean pulmonary embolism or venous thromboembolism is ...

https://doi.org/10.4103/2045-8932.97594 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4103/2045-8932.97594 Copy URL AbstractPulmonary hypertension as a result of chronic ...

Backround A 40-year-old woman presented with dyspnea in the fifth month of pregnancy followed by a sudden onset of pleuritic chest pain 2 weeks postpartum. She was diagnosed as having pulmonary ...

SCINTILLATION scanning of the lungs is being used with increasing frequency as a means of establishing the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism. 1–6 Little information is available, however, ...

Prospective Neurocognitive Function Over 5 Years After Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation for Cancer Survivors Compared With Matched Controls at 5 Years Therefore, this study was performed ...

Low specificity of cytokeratin 19 reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction analyses for detection of hematogenous lung cancer dissemination. Four hundred fifty-two patients admitted for ...

Do you feel fatigued? Have you stopped venturing out owing to the swelling of your legs? Do you find difficult to breathe? Then, it is the right time to consult your doctor as this can put you at the ...