The proportion of patients with postoperative pulmonary complications in the first 5 days after thoracic surgery did not ...

Medical experts warn that "ghost symptoms" like back pain or mild cramping could be the only warning signs of a ...

Continuous anticoagulation may effectively reduce the incidence of thromboembolic events in patients with orthopedic trauma, ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE) mortality has increased over the past decade and racial and geographic disparities persist. Black women and men have an approximately two-fold higher age-adjusted mortality ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE), a type of blood clot in the lungs, sends more than half a million people to U.S. hospitals each year - and kills about one in five high-risk patients, according to the ...

ALAMEDA, Calif., Oct. 27, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Penumbra, Inc. (NYSE: PEN) announced the results of the landmark STORM-PE randomized controlled trial (RCT), which found that the use of mechanical ...

Pulmonary cement embolism is a potentially serious complication following percutaneous vertebroplasty. The risk factors for pulmonary cement embolism have not been clearly identifed. Cement leakage ...

This summer I wrote an article about my experience with a postsurgical pulmonary embolism, hoping that sharing my story would help others take their own medical warning signs seriously. Hundreds of ...

Diego Ayo, M.D., a board-certified and fellowship-trained vascular surgeon at AdventHealth Pepin Heart Institute. A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that limits or blocks blood flow to your lungs — ...

Taking blood-thinning medicines is crucial to prevent blood clots in the legs from traveling to the lungs. If you can't take blood thinners, a doctor might use a special filter to stop clots from ...