A multicenter study by the PIOPED III Investigators has shown that magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) can be used to detect pulmonary embolism ... with spiral CT, now the gold standard, shows ...

Chest CT showed a PE in the right main pulmonary artery extending ... following case via the right common femoral vein. A limited angiogram of the pulmonary artery showed thrombus at the branching ...

Methods: We studied 400 consecutive patients in the ED diagnosed with acute PE by CT scan angiography and treated in the hospital with IV unfractionated heparin from 2002 to 2005. Patients ...