Diagnosis of blunt thoracic aortic injury (BAI) should be considered in any serious polytrauma. The diagnosis is mainly based on the CT scan at baseline. Life-threatening lesions are often associated with BAI.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFChronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is a rare but underdiagnosed disease. The development of imaging played a crucial role for the screening and the decision of operability over the past few years. Indeed, chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension is the only type of pulmonary hypertension with a potential curative treatment: pulmonary endarterectomy.
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