What Is a Pulmonary Embolism? A pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot suddenly blocks an artery that supplies blood to your lungs. Pulmonary embolism happens when a blood clot travels ...

The sudden death of Emily Mitchell, a 36-year-old parenting blogger and influencer, shows how lethal and stealthy blood clots can be — especially for expectant moms. Pulmonary embolism — blamed in ...

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 ...

Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) is associated with a lower risk for death and major bleeding complications than systemic thrombolysis for patients with intermediate- or high-risk pulmonary ...

Women with pulmonary embolism (PE) who undergo percutaneous pulmonary artery thrombectomy have higher rates of morbidity and in-hospital mortality than men, a large, nationwide cohort study indicated.

Duane ‘Dog the Bounty Hunter’ Chapman, 66, is facing a serious health issue. Only weeks after losing his wife Beth, 51, to cancer, the bounty hunter was hospitalized on Sept. 14 for a “heart emergency ...

A 1000 ng/mL D-dimer threshold safely rules out pulmonary embolism in low-likelihood patients, reducing unnecessary chest imaging in emergency care.

HONOLULU -- During the first year of the pandemic, patients with pulmonary embolism (PE) had higher in-hospital mortality rates when they also had concomitant COVID-19, according to a nationwide ...

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Mechanical thrombectomy is effective and safe for treating pulmonary embolism (PE). Although the Tendvia ...

What to do for a woman in her mid-20s who presented with shortness of breath on exertion that had been bothering her for the past 2 years? That's what Praveen Gupta, DM, of the Praveen Heart Clinic ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A family on Chicago's South Side are focused, in their personal lives and business, on fitness and saving lives to keep other families from suffering the same tragedy caused by a ...