{"id":931,"date":"2009-02-18T07:25:16","date_gmt":"2009-02-18T07:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cardiophile.org\/?p=931"},"modified":"2024-01-02T20:33:50","modified_gmt":"2024-01-02T15:03:50","slug":"signs-in-pulmonary-embolism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/professional\/signs-in-pulmonary-embolism\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs in pulmonary embolism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z4-_9xmkYd8?si=LrT9QL5ksJeVKWhG\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Signs in pulmonary embolism<\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Westermark sign is a focal oligemia of the lung due to occlusion of a branch pulmonary artery due to pulmonary embolism. The vessel proximal to the occlusion is dilated.<\/p>\n<p>Hampton&#8217;s hump is a peripheral pleural based wedge shaped lung opacity due to pulmonary infarction in a case of pulmonary embolism.<\/p>\n<p>Knuckle sign is the abrupt cut off of a pulmonary artery branch due to pulmonary embolism.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s sign is akinesia of right ventricular mid-free wall with sparing apex seen in acute pulmonary embolism. This finding has a sensitivity of 77% and specificity of 94% [1].<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Reference<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>M V McConnell, S D Solomon, M E Rayan, P C Come, S Z Goldhaber, R T Lee. <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/8752195\/\">Regional right ventricular dysfunction detected by echocardiography in acute pulmonary embolism<\/a>. Am J Cardiol. 1996 Aug 15;78(4):469-73.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Signs in pulmonary embolism: Westermark sign, Hampton&#8217;s hump, McConnell&#8217;s sign, Knuckle sign<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-echocardiogram-library"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Signs in pulmonary embolism<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Signs in pulmonary embolism: Westermark sign, Hampton&#039;s hump, McConnell&#039;s sign, Knuckle sign\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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