Incidental pulmonary embolism: A Case Report

Year 2024, Volume: 6 Issue: 2, 81 - 82, 05.09.2024

İpek Öztürkmen Şevval Kanlı Serra Nur Kalkan Fatma Sena Özçelik Yılmaz Ersöz

https://doi.org/10.55994/ejcc.1280143

Abstract

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a common clinical condition that generally presents with acute dyspnea, pleuritic chest pain, cough, hemoptysis, tachypnea, tachycardia and hypoxia. Incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE) is defined as an unsuspected filling defect in the pulmonary arteries identified on CT imaging performed for another indication. This report describes a case of Incidental pulmonary embolism (IPE) detected by CT imaging during the follow-up of a 34-year-old male patient who applied to the internal medicine outpatient clinic with weight loss and gastrointestinal system complaints

Keywords

pulmonary embolism, incidental pulmonary embolism, emergency medicine

Project Number

yok

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