A Mumbai hospital has successfully performed a rare and intricate heart surgery on an 18-month-old child diagnosed with a ...

Lynn Hopkins of Ohio is happy she went with her gut and continued to explore her health issues, because it eventually led her ...

We present a method for automatic separation and classification of pulmonary arteries and veins in computed tomography. Our method takes advantage of local information to separate segmented vessels, ...

Quantitative CT evaluation of extrapulmonary lesions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a narrative review National Center for Respiratory Medicine ...

According to CT scan data, all the pulmonary artery diameters increased significantly with increasing mPAP values, reflecting more severe PH. These included the main pulmonary arteries, the left and ...

Our method was also validated with contrast-enhanced CT scans of patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension to demonstrate that our model generalizes well to contrast-enhanced ...

Misdiagnosis of these entities can result in progressive pulmonary artery aneurysms formation and life-threatening bleeding. Pulmonary artery wall enhancement on post-contrast CT pulmonary angiography ...

Diagnostic evaluation includes right heart catheterization with pulmonary artery catheter sample of blood sent for cytology to look for malignant cells, imaging to identify fluorodeoxyglucose-avid ...

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