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| | Embolism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | In medicine, an embolism occurs when an object (the embolus, plural emboli) migrates from one part of the body (through circulation) and cause(s) a blockage (occlusion) of a blood vessel in another part of the body. | | | Emboli often have more serious consequences when they occur in the so-called "end-circulation": areas of the body that have no redundant blood supply, such as the brain, heart, and lungs. | | | This can be contrasted with a "thrombus" which is the formation of a clot within a blood vessel, rather than being carried from elsewhere. |
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| | THE MERCK MANUAL OF GERIATRICS, Ch. 77, Pulmonary Embolism |
| | Patients with pulmonary embolism and a bloody pleural effusion generally have a pulmonary infiltrate on chest x-ray that suggests hemorrhagic consolidation of the lung parenchyma. | | | Because most patients with pulmonary embolism have many emboli, the incidence of false-negative pulmonary angiograms is low. | | | Although most elderly patients with pulmonary embolism have deep vein thrombosis as the initial source of the embolus, only 33% have clinical signs of leg thrombosis--eg, leg swelling, tenderness, increased warmth, and Homans' sign. |
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| | NGC - NGC Summary |
| | Monitored oxygen therapy is beneficial in patients with pulmonary embolism and hypoxaemia. | | | The use of thrombolytic therapy in patients with sub-massive pulmonary embolism (right ventricular hypokinesia) is controversial. | | | First line diagnostic tests, such as electrocardiography, chest X-ray and blood-gas analysis are indicated to assess clinical probability of pulmonary embolism and general condition of the patient. |
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| | Postgraduate Medicine: Early intervention in massive pulmonary embolism |
| | Careful application of this algorithm helps to triage patients with massive pulmonary embolism in the following proportions: heparin therapy alone in 20% to 30%; IVC filter placement with or without heparin therapy in 30% to 50%; thrombolytic therapy in 20% to 40%; and embolectomy in 0% to 10%. | | | In the early phases of acute pulmonary embolism, hypoxemia is predominantly the result of V/Q mismatch (3). | | | A randomized study (20) compared the use of an IVC filter or no filter in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy who were at risk for pulmonary embolism; after 12 days, recurrent pulmonary embolism was seen in 1.1% of patients with a filter versus 8.6% without a filter. |
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| | Embolism AHealthyMe.com |
| | With a pulmonary embolism, oxygen therapy is often used to maintain normal oxygen concentrations. | | | For people who can't take anticoagulants and in some other cases, surgery may be needed to insert a device that filters blood returning to the heart and lungs. | | | Electrodes covered with conducting jelly are placed on the patient's chest, arms, and legs. |
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| | The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Pulmonary Embolism |
| | The immediate treatment for pulmonary embolism is anticoagulant therapy to dissolve the clot and return blood flow. | | | Conditions that may contribute to pulmonary embolism include extended bed rest, surgery, cancer, paralysis and aging. | | | The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Pulmonary Embolism |
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| | Venous Air Embolism |
| | The Doppler ultrasound is not quantitative, however, and may be difficult to place on some patients, especially those with a chest wall deformity or who are obese. | | | Air embolism can also occur during surgical procedures involving the head and neck (i.e., neck dissection), vaginal delivery and caesarean section, and spinal instrumentation procedures. | | | Transesophageal echocardiography is more sensitive than Doppler ultrasound, and is also more invasive and technically more difficult to place and to interpret. |
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| | Veins1.com - Arterial Embolism |
| | For pulmonary embolisms, chest x-rays are effective, and tests of lung function may point to embolism as an underlying cause of breathing difficulty or other pulmonary problems. | | | Sometimes surgery, if it is safe to perform on the affected area (this is sometimes not an option in brain embolism), may be used to remove emboli and stop the blockage of blood flow. | | | Doppler ultrasound can also help to pinpoint clotting and flow blockages, especially in the lower extremities. |
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| | American Family Physician: Controversies in Pulmonary Embolism and Deep Venous Thrombosis |
| | Deep venous thrombosis and pulmonary embolism should be treated with anticoagulants rather than inferior vena cava filters, even in oncology patients, unless anticoagulation is contraindicated; if so, when the contraindication remits, anticoagulation should be employed. | | | Second, leg thromboses that are presymptomatic or are formed while patients are receiving antithrombotic therapy are usually not occlusive and are softer (i.e., compressible). | | | For example, one physician might score a patient's presentation as an 18 percent likelihood for pulmonary embolism, whereas another physician might score it as a 22 percent likelihood. |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Arterial embolism |
| | Arterial embolism is a sudden interruption of blood flow to an organ or body part. | | | The outcome varies depending on the location of the embolism and the extent that the embolism affects blood supply to the area. | | | Arterial emboli can affect the extremities -- especially the legs and feet. |
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| | Diagnosing pulmonary embolism -- Riedel 80 (944): 309 -- Postgraduate Medical Journal |
| | of pulmonary embolism and contribute to the clinical assessment, | | | Ruling out clinically suspected pulmonary embolism by assessment of clinical probability and D-dimer levels: a management study. | | | Diagnostic strategies for excluding pulmonary embolism in clinical outcome studies. |
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| | American Family Physician: Extended anticoagulation after pulmonary embolism - Tips from Other Journals |
| | The incidence of recurrence was 12.2 percent in patients with idiopathic pulmonary embolism and 7.6 percent in those with pulmonary embolism associated with transient risk factors. | | | Because patients with pulmonary embolism are more likely to develop fatal recurrent venous thromboembolism, the length of oral anticoagulation after an initial event requires clarification. | | | Among the patients assigned to continue therapy, the recurrence rate for venous thromboembolism was 3.1 percent per patient-year, compared with 4.1 percent per patient-year among the patients assigned to discontinue therapy. |
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| | NEJM -- The clinical course of pulmonary embolism |
| | NEJM -- The clinical course of pulmonary embolism | | | Dalen, J. Pulmonary Embolism: What Have We Learned Since Virchow?: Treatment and Prevention. | | | Arcasoy, S. M., Kreit, J. Thrombolytic Therapy of Pulmonary Embolism: A Comprehensive Review of Current Evidence. |
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| | NodeWorks - Encyclopedia: Pulmonary embolism |
| | This may be valid approach in pregnancy, in which the other modalities would increase the risk of birth defects in the unborn child. | | | After a trial published in 1960 (Baritt & Jordan), anticoagulation became the most important therapeutic intervention in pulmonary embolism. | | | Anticoagulant drugs in the treatment of pulmonary embolism: a controlled trial. |
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| | Pulmonary Embolism, Summary, NHLBI DCI |
| | A pulmonary embolism blocks blood flow to part of the lung. | | | Your doctor will do a physical exam and several tests to decide if you have a pulmonary embolism. | | | Some have symptoms that could be due to other conditions. |
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| | Pulmonary Embolism |
| | Heparin and warfarin are anticoagulant medications that are most commonly given to prevent the growth of existing blood clots or the development of new blood clots. | | | You may have sharp chest pain, which can spread to your shoulder, neck, jaw, or arm. | | | Shortness of breath is the most common symptom of pulmonary embolism. |
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| | Pulmonary Embolism -- Other Treatment |
| | If surgery or medications are not options, other methods of preventing pulmonary embolism may be considered, such as a vena cava filter. | | | However, they may be most effective when combined with anticoagulant therapy. | | | Vena cava filters may benefit people who have had a pulmonary embolism surgically removed (embolectomy) if another pulmonary embolism would likely be fatal or severely limit a person's lifestyle. |
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| | PULMONARY EMBOLISM |
| | A thoracotomy was felt to represent a high-risk because of her recent cardiac surgery and adhesions which increased the chance of injury to the bypass grafts. | | | Stein PD, Hull RD, Raskob G: Risks for major bleeding from thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute pulmonary embolism. | | | Anticoagulant drugs in the treatment of pulmonary embolism. |
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| | Imaging pulmonary embolism -- Hansell and Flower 316 (7130): 490 -- BMJ |
| | Diagnosis of acute pulmonary embolism: time for a new approach. | | | Pulmonary embolism is a common condition that often escapes | | | Spiral Computed Tomography for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism in Critically Ill Surgical Patients: A Comparison With Pulmonary Angiography |
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| | Embolism - Page 1 - HeartCenterOnline: |
| | Treatment could include medications to dissolve the embolism or increase blood flow, surgery to remove the embolism or the use of a nonsurgical approach such as using catheters, or long, thin tubes. | | | Similarly, treatment will depend on which type of embolism is diagnosed. | | | Embolisms can occur in veins, which carry unoxygenated blood back to the heart and lungs, as well as arteries, which carry oxygenated blood from the heart to the tissues of the body. |
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| | Gas embolism |
| | A doctor may also find pockets of air in the chest around the lungs and sometimes a collapsed lung from overinflation and rupture. | | | Gas embolism may also result from trauma or medical procedures such as catheterization and open heart surgery that allow air into the circulatory system. | | | Patients with conditions such as alcoholism and drug abuse are also discouraged from diving. |
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| | The MSDS HyperGlossary: Embolism |
| | If left untreated (by blood thinning medications such as coumarin, for example), a pulmonary embolism can be fatal. | | | A pulmonary embolism is an embolism that occurs in the lung. | | | Embolisms can form due to trauma (damage) to the body. |
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| | Managing pulmonary embolism -- Janata 326 (7403): 1341 -- BMJ |
| | Combined with low clinical pretest probability of pulmonary | | | how likely it is that a particular patient has pulmonary embolism. | | | -dimer concentration in diagnostic workup of patients with suspected pulmonary embolism. |
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| | Pulmonary Embolism |
| | Fewer than one-fourth of patients show the classic signs and symptoms of tachypnea, pleuritic chest pain, dyspnea, cough and hemoptysis. | | | Pulmonary embolism is a potentially fatal disorder that is often difficult to diagnose clinically. | | | The predisposing risk factors for pulmonary embolism include postoperative or immobilized state, cancer, congestive heart failure or a hypercoagulable condition. |
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| | Causes of Embolism - CureResearch.com |
| | Embolism as a symptom: Conditions listing Embolism as a symptom may also be potential underlying causes of Embolism. | | | Embolism as a complication: Other conditions that might have Embolism as a complication might be potential underlying causes of Embolism. | | | Use of this site is subject to our TERMS OF USE. |
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| | Pulmonary embolism - MayoClinic.com |
| | Pulmonary embolism is a condition that occurs when an artery in your lung becomes blocked. | | | And when pulmonary embolism does occur, treatment with anti-clotting medications can greatly reduce the risk of death. | | | In most cases, the blockage is caused by one or more blood clots that travel to your lungs from another part of your body. |
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| | Pulmonary embolism |
| | Acute unexplained dyspnea - occurs in patients who do not develop acute cor pulmonale or pulmonary infarction | | | Pulmonary Infarction - occurs in patients with submassive pulmonary embolism with complete obstruction of a distal branch of the pulmonary circulation | | | Deep vein thrombosis responsible for 95% of pulmonary embolism |
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| | MedlinePlus: Pulmonary Embolism |
| | Pulmonary Embolism (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) | | | Pulmonary Thromboendarterectomy for Chronic Pulmonary Embolism (Society of Thoracic Surgeons) | | | The primary NIH organization for research on Pulmonary Embolism is the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute |
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| | MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Blood clots |
| | For example, an embolus that occurs in the lungs is called a pulmonary embolism. | | | A thrombus that travels from the vessel or heart chamber where it formed to another location in the body is called an embolus, and the disorder, an embolism. | | | A blood clot that forms in a vessel or within the heart and remains there is called a thrombus. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Embolism |
| | The embolism may date back to the first centuries, since, under various forms, it is found in all the Occidental and in a great many Oriental, particularly Syrian, Liturgies. | | | The prayer which, in the Mass, is inserted between the Our Father and the Fraction of the Bread: "Libera nos, quæsumus, Domine, ab omnibus malis", etc. It is an interpretation of the last petition. |
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| | cholesterol embolism - definition of cholesterol embolism in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical ... |
| | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. | | | cholesterol embolism - definition of cholesterol embolism in the Medical dictionary - by the Free Online Medical Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | An embolism of lipid debris from an ulcerated atheromatous deposit, generally from a large artery to small arterial branches. |
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