A pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign substance blocks an artery in your lungs, stopping blood flow. It’s usually caused by a blood clot, but can sometimes be due to lipid, air, or tumor ...

From the Vascular Laboratory, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, the Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, and the Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Hospital and Harvard Medical ...

Saddle pulmonary embolism describes a large blood clot that sits atop or “saddles” the main pulmonary artery where it divides and branches into the left and right lungs. It can cause breathing ...

When an artery in your lung gets blocked by a blood clot, you have a pulmonary embolism (PE). Symptoms can vary. What you experience will likely depend on the size of the clot and how much of your ...

In 15 patients with definite angiographic evidence of embolism involving both lungs, and treated with heparin or venous ligation or both, sequential studies showed only minimal angiographic and ...

Researchers in Spain investigated whether implementation of a pulmonary embolism diagnostic strategy improved outcomes among patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Adding an ...

A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot blocks one of the arteries in the lungs. A pulmonary embolism can happen after surgery if a blood clot forms inside one of the veins in the body and ...

Contrary to initial reports of pneumonia, the Los Angeles coroner's office says the 44-year-old rapper died of a blood clot in his lung. By Mikey O'Connell The singer performed at the BET Hip Hop ...