CT angiogram was requested for assessment of suspected pulmonary embolism. Instead, it showed invasion of the left pulmonary artery and left upper lobar artery branch with the tumor, without bland ...

The 3D CT data set can be ... such as the atria and appendages, pulmonary trunk, and cardiac veins, can obscure the view and are preferably removed. The left coronary artery originates at the ...

September 28, 2012 (Vienna, Austria) — The ratio of the diameter of the pulmonary artery to the diameter of ... determined with computed tomography (CT), which is already used to screen for ...

travels through the bloodstream and gets lodged in a pulmonary artery. The condition can be fatal, so prompt diagnosis is critical. CT angiography's high sensitivity and specificity has made it ...

Saddle PE is when a large blood clot (thrombus) gets stuck where the main pulmonary artery branches off into a Y-shape to go into each lung. The name refers to the fact that the clot “saddles ...

If a doctor suspects you may have a pulmonary embolism (PE), a CT scan is the gold standard of imaging techniques. This painless scan uses intravenous (IV) contrast, a type of dye, to help the ...

Ultimately, the commercial AI tool had NPV of 99.8% and PPV of 86.7% for detection of iPE on conventional contrast-enhanced chest CT examinations (i.e., not using CT pulmonary angiography protocols).

"If appropriate therapeutic responses are instituted, lung CT findings could affect survival from 2 leading causes of death: lung cancer and coronary artery disease," the authors write. The ...