A pulmonary embolism is a blood clot that blocks the lung’s arteries. Blood clots do not show on chest X-rays. However, these X-rays may help doctors rule out other health conditions with similar ...

THE fact that a pulmonary infiltrate seen on x-ray study of the chest is unilateral is often considered to favor the diagnosis of an inflammatory or neo-plastic process rather than pulmonary ...

What causes fluid buildup in lungs? In majority of the cases, cardiovascular problems lead to pulmonary edema. However, fluid can collect in the lungs due to other reasons such as pneumonia, exposure ...

Artificial intelligence can scan a chest X-ray and diagnose if an abnormality is fluid in the lungs, an enlarged heart or cancer. But being right is not enough, said Ngan Le, a University of Arkansas ...

Pulmonary edema is a condition where fluid accumulates in the lungs. The lungs are organs of respiration. Oxygen from the air passes through small air sacs of the lungs called alveoli and oxygenates ...

A 50-year-old woman had experienced 6 months of mild shortness of breath and noise while breathing. She was obese with a body mass index of 32. Her primary care physician found a neck mass; results of ...

For the first time, researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have successfully used a new X-ray method for respiratory diagnostics with patients. Dark-field X-rays visualize early ...

A 24-year-old man was admitted with a two-day history of shortness of breath and right chest pain. He had an eight-pack-year history of smoking with no significant medical history. He was febrile ...

DIURETICS are frequently used as part of the therapeutic regimen in the management of patients in acute pulmonary edema. The decreased cardiac output and reduced glomerular filtration rate of patients ...