Pulmonary infarction is a common finding in acute PE, and generally small. Radiological identification of infarction was challenging, with considerable interobserver variability. Complete obstruction of the supplying (sub)segmental pulmonary artery was found as the strongest predictor for pulmonary infarction but was not demonstrated to be discriminative.
Keyphrases
- pulmonary hypertension
- pulmonary artery
- pulmonary embolism
- liver failure
- computed tomography
- pulmonary arterial hypertension
- coronary artery
- respiratory failure
- inferior vena cava
- drug induced
- aortic dissection
- magnetic resonance imaging
- hepatitis b virus
- positron emission tomography
- intensive care unit
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation