Right ventricular outflow tract doppler flow abnormalities suggestive of pulmonary embolism – case series and review
Toni Ivičić, Jasmin Hamzić, Bojana Radulović, Ivan Gornik · 2024
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Description
Toni Ivicic and colleagues published a case series in 2024. They studied ultrasound signs of lung blood clots. Pulmonary embolism is notoriously hard to diagnose quickly. Symptoms range from none to sudden death. Heart ultrasound usually checks heart size and function. A flow pattern in the outflow tract may help more. Early systolic notching appears in many risky cases. Three emergency patients with that pattern are shown. None had prior heart or lung disease known. Their initial risk scores looked low beforehand.
Heart scans showed the notching pattern first in each case. CT scans then found large central clots. The clots blocked the main lung arteries. Ultrasound was the only early clue in some. The sign could speed up confirmatory scanning greatly. Selected patients may benefit most from this check. Wider validation is still needed before routine use.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Toni Ivičić, Jasmin Hamzić, Bojana Radulović, Ivan Gornik |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 18 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |