Brain death determination sits at the fraught intersection of critical-care medicine, ethics, and organ-donation logistics.

A research team led by Prof. Li Hai from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has ...

Key points A 57-year-old man presented to the emergency department with back and right upper quadrant abdominal pain that progressed to painful right leg swelling over a few days. His vital signs at ...

The pulmonary MDCT angiographic scans were reconstructed with a contiguous ... Ultrasonography confirmed DVT of the lower-extremity vein. In the remaining 5 patients with PE on V/Q SPECT combined with ...

A higher diameter ratio on CT scans between the right ventricle ... flexible catheter is inserted into a vein in the neck, arm, or groin and passed into the right ventricle and pulmonary artery. This ...

Pulmonary angiography is a test that studies blood flow in ... research indicates that PMRA can provide accuracy comparable to a CT scan without the risk of radiation exposure. The main advantage of ...

Pulmonary vein (PV) isolation is the cornerstone of AF ablation ... based techniques can yield accurate segmentations of vasculature in conventional CT scans. Segmenting PV branches is particularly ...

“DVT diagnosis involves ultrasound imaging to visualise blood flow in the affected veins. For PE, imaging tests such as CT pulmonary angiography and ventilation-perfusion scans are used to ...

Pulmonary Embolism: A blood clot breaks off from a deep vein (usually in the leg), travels ... Computed tomography (CT scan): A CT scanner takes multiple X-rays, and a computer constructs detailed ...