The first multisociety guidelines on the diagnosis and management of acute pulmonary embolism feature a new classification ...

“In these first cases, the Vertex system was successful in safely navigating through the right heart and into the pulmonary vasculature, facilitating an efficient and effective pulmonary embolectomy ...

The 2026 AHA/ACC guidelines introduce a five-tier Acute PE Clinical Category system to stratify severity and guide treatment decisions. Mechanical thrombectomy receives a Class 2a recommendation for ...

The first clinical practice guideline on acute pulmonary embolism (PE) from the American Heart Association and the American ...

The AHA and ACC issued a guideline on a clinical classification system to define the severity of an acute PE and assist in developing treatment strategies.

Despite being costly and of little proven benefit, a procedure for treating pulmonary embolism with blood clot filters is routinely used in older adults, Yale School of Medicine researchers and their ...

A surgical procedure that was virtually abandoned in the 1950s because of its high mortality rates in trying to save patients with acute pulmonary embolism may actually prevent more deaths in severely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . As catheter-directed therapies have advanced in recent years, they are becoming a critical part of the strategy ...

This was supplied in sterile, heat-treated form (60°C for ten hours for the purpose of virus inactivation) by Abbott Laboratories, Chicago, under contract with the National Heart Institute. The ...

Elizabeth Simms was 27 and pregnant when she was struck with a life-threatening pulmonary embolism. Her fourth pregnancy had ...

Approximately one in six patients hospitalized for a first episode of syncope have a pulmonary embolism, a new study shows, with the prevalence of pulmonary embolism highest among individuals without ...