New Orleans, LA | Leesburg, VA | May 3, 2022—A Scientific E-Poster presented during the 2022 ARRS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA discussed how to prevent contamination and spread of COVID-19 during ...

Nuclear medicine provides imaging modalities that can be used to observe physiological processes in the human body, particularly in the bones, heart, lungs, renal system and brain.

MDCT pulmonary angiography is replacing the ventilation-perfusion lung scan to diagnose suspected pulmonary embolism in hospitalized patients, say researchers from Rhode Island Hospital in Providence.

Patients who are screened for pulmonary embolism but have a "limited negative" result on computed tomographic pulmonary angiography (CTPA) appear to be at no higher risk for a venous thromboembolism ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information by sharing relevant background and reasoning ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a leading cause of death among pregnant women in the developed world. [1] The fact that PE remains such a threat is a clear indication of the difficulty in diagnosing it.

When you breathe, a certain fraction of your air enters the lungs and blood flows through the capillaries. When this ratio is above or below 0.8, you may have ventilation/perfusion (V/Q) mismatch. A V ...

Introduction and aims: BPD is the most common chronic lung disease in infancy causing substantional morbidity. It is currently graded at 36 weeks according to the need for supplemental oxygen and/or ...

Objective: To assess the clinical effectiveness and cost effectiveness of myocardial perfusion scintigraphy (MPS) for the diagnosis and management of patients with suspected and diagnosed coronary ...