"Pulmonary Infarction" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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NECROSIS of lung tissue that is cause by the lack of OXYGEN or blood supply. The most common cause of pulmonary infarction is a blood clot in the lung.
| Descriptor ID |
D054060
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C08.381.746.500 C14.907.355.350.700.500
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| Concept/Terms |
Pulmonary Infarction- Pulmonary Infarction
- Infarctions, Pulmonary
- Pulmonary Infarctions
- Infarction, Pulmonary
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Pulmonary Infarction" by people in Profiles.
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Pulmonary infarctions as the cause of bilateral cavitations in a patient with COVID-19. Diagn Interv Radiol. 2021 Sep; 27(5):690-691.
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Pulmonary infarcts in COVID-19. Clin Imaging. 2021 12; 80:158-159.
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Postmortem lung biopsies from four patients with COVID-19 at a tertiary hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. S Afr Med J. 2020 10 19; 110(12):1195-1200.
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Patterns of organizing pneumonia and microinfarcts as surrogate for endothelial disruption and microangiopathic thromboembolic events in patients with coronavirus disease 2019. PLoS One. 2020; 15(10):e0240078.
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Pulmonary infarction secondary to pulmonary thromboembolism in COVID-19 diagnosed with dual-energy CT pulmonary angiography. Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed). 2020 08; 73(8):672-674.
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Incidence and morphological characteristics of the reversed halo sign in patients with acute pulmonary embolism and pulmonary infarction undergoing computed tomography angiography of the pulmonary arteries. J Bras Pneumol. 2019 Feb 25; 45(1):e20170438.
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Morphological characteristics of the reversed halo sign that may strongly suggest pulmonary infarction. Clin Radiol. 2018 05; 73(5):503.e7-503.e13.
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Clinical Relevance of Pleural Effusion in Patients with Pulmonary Embolism. Respiration. 2017; 93(4):271-278.
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Peripheral opacity on plain chest radiography. Cleve Clin J Med. 2013 Oct; 80(10):621-4.