Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results of a 5-year study in Japan suggest pulmonary embolism may be a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest ...

PULMONARY bone-marrow embolism as a complication of closed-chest cardiac massage has rarely been reported. 1,2 This complication, however, has frequently been observed in routine autopsies of patients ...

Right ventricular global longitudinal strain (RVGLS) and right ventricular outflow tract velocity time integral (RVOT VTI) measurements were associated with mortality in critically ill patients with ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A new study in Chest highlights a link between elevated heart rate and risk for all-cause and pulmonary embolism ...

(WJAR) — Saint Anne's Hospital in Fall River announces an innovative regional Pulmonary Embolism Response Team, PERT. This is in response to high rates of this cardiovascular condition, offering top ...

A Clinical Picture published Online First and in an upcoming Lancet details a radiographic examination of the heart of Santa Rosa—a well preserved mummy dating back to 13th century BC, and concludes ...

Traditionally, most heart attacks have been blamed on clogged arteries causing atherothrombosis – where blood clots block ...

A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks the lung’s arteries. Blood clots do not show on chest X-rays. However, these X-rays may help doctors rule out other health conditions with similar ...

VENOUS air embolism is a dreaded complication of a variety of surgical, therapeutic and diagnostic technics. In one series it accounted for 1 in 108 operating-room ...

Older people who’ve had an MI without any clinical symptoms appear to be at risk for subsequent ischemic strokes, according to an analysis of the Cardiovascular Health Study. Over roughly a decade of ...

Guru Jagat, a well-known Kundalini yoga teacher who worked with celebrities, has died after suffering from a pulmonary embolism. In her final Instagram post on July 31, Jagat gave what she described ...