Lung Ventilation/Perfusion Scintigraphy for the Screening of Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension (CTEPH): Which Criteria to Use?

Objective: The diagnosis of chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH) is a major challenge as it is a curable cause of pulmonary hypertension (PH). Ventilation/Perfusion (V/Q) lung scintigraphy is the imaging modality of choice for the screening of CTEPH. However, there is no consensus on the criteria to use for interpretation.

Risk factors for recurrence during a pregnancy following a first venous thromboembolism: A French observational study.

Background: Women with a previous venous thromboembolism (VTE) are at risk of recurrence during pregnancy.

Objectives: We aimed to assess the incidence rate of recurrent VTE during pregnancy, according to the period of pregnancy, and the clinical parameters associated with recurrence, in a prospective cohort of women of childbearing age after a first VTE.

Patients/methods: A total of 189 women aged 15-49 years with a first documented VTE were followed until a subsequent pregnancy of at least 20 weeks' gestation between 2000 and 2020.

Evaluation of the predictive value of the bleeding prediction score VTE-BLEED for recurrent venous thromboembolism.

Introduction: VTE-BLEED is a validated score for identification of patients at increased risk of major bleeding during extended anticoagulation for venous thromboembolism (VTE). It is unknown whether VTE-BLEED high-risk patients also have an increased risk for recurrent VTE, which would limit the potential usefulness of the score.

Methods: This was a post hoc analysis of the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled PADIS-PE trial that randomized patients with a first unprovoked pulmonary embolism (PE) initially treated during 6 months to receive an additional 18-month of warfarin vs.

Retained fragments after total laparoscopic hysterectomy.

A 36-year-old woman had a history of worsening menorrhagia, refractory to medical therapy. She underwent a total laparoscopic hysterectomy. Postoperatively, she experienced significant dyspareunia, dysuria, and pelvic pain.

Laparoscopic hysterectomy: the Kaiser Permanente San Diego experience.

Study Objective: To evaluate patient and surgical characteristics of laparoscopic hysterectomy (LH), including both total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) and laparoscopic supracervical hysterectomy (LSH), compared with total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH).

Design: Retrospective, comparative study (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting: Health maintenance organization/residency-training program.