Current Role of CT Pulmonary Angiography in Pulmonary Embolism: A State-of-the-Art Review
Ignacio Diaz-Lorenzo, Alberto Alonso-Burgos, Alfonsa Friera Reyes, Ruben Eduardo Pacios Blanco, Maria del Carmen de Benavides Bernaldo de Quiros, Guillermo Gallardo Madueño · 2024
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Description
Ignacio Diaz-Lorenzo and co-authors present a 2024 review of CT pulmonary angiography in lung clot care. The scan is the main test for pulmonary embolism, a clot that blocks lung arteries. The review covers clot burden scoring and death risk prediction. It also weighs new scan techniques and clot makeup reading. Artificial intelligence tools for the scan get a section.
One scan finding is firmly validated for prognosis so far. A right-to-left heart chamber width ratio above one links to far higher death risk. Other burden scores remain unproven by comparison. Radiologists get a disciplined account of what the scan can and cannot promise. Clot age reading from makeup could one day match treatment to clot stage. The review separates proven signs from hopeful ones, which busy clinicians need.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ignacio Diaz-Lorenzo, Alberto Alonso-Burgos, Alfonsa Friera Reyes, Ruben Eduardo Pacios Blanco, Maria del Carmen de Benavides Bernaldo de Quiros, Guillermo Gallardo Madueño |
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| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |