What Is a Pulmonary Embolism? A pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot suddenly blocks an artery that supplies blood to your lungs. Pulmonary embolism happens when a blood clot travels ...

Medically reviewed by Amelia MacIntyre, DO Key Takeaways Recovery from a pulmonary embolism can take weeks to months. Keeping ...

Guru Jagat, a well-known Kundalini yoga teacher who worked with celebrities, has died after suffering from a pulmonary embolism. In her final Instagram post on July 31, Jagat gave what she described ...

Pulmonary embolism remains a diagnostic challenge, but recent advances in serologic testing (D-dimer) and improved imaging methods (multidetector computed tomographic scanning) have allowed much ...

Three days after Brittany Oswell suffered a pulmonary embolism on an American Airlines flight, the 25-year-old was declared brain dead and taken off life support. Pulmonary embolism (PE) is one of the ...

Dog the Bounty Hunter has had a tough year since he faced the loss of his wife, Beth Chapman, in June. Her death left the reality TV star brokenhearted—a condition he says almost cost him his own life ...

One-third of pulmonary embolism patients will die of cardiac arrest before they even realize they have a blood clot. Learn what you can do to identify and treat this scary killer of young people with ...

When Donna Brovender’s daughter, Ali Senser, passed away from a pulmonary embolism at the age of 35, two days after giving birth, she was heartbroken. “Devastated would be an understatement,” ...

Catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) is associated with a lower risk for death and major bleeding complications than systemic thrombolysis for patients with intermediate- or high-risk pulmonary ...

The small-profile device expands to capture clots like large-bore systems while offering good reduction in RV/LV ratio at 48 ...

Cindyana Santangelo had an embolism after receiving injections of silicone oil into her buttocks by Libby Adame, the second ...