A young, fit, and non-smoker British man was wrongly diagnosed with anxiety and prescribed medicine, while he actually had ...
LIAM Handley didn’t seem like a typical lung cancer patient. The 36-year-old from Glossop, in Derbyshire, was young, fit and a non-smoker – but he did have anxiety. So when the dad-of-four ...
But soon after he arrived, he had a scan showing he was in a bigger fight for his life. "I went for a lung screening and that showed blood clots in the lungs. I was told that was very dangerous ...
Pulmonary embolism is the sudden blockage of a major blood vessel (artery) in the lung, usually by a blood clot. In most cases, the clots are small and aren't deadly, but they can damage the lung. But ...
She said: "I felt the clot, it was a saddle pulmonary embolism ... to come back for a CT scan the following day. However a CT done that night did confirm a "huge blood clot" as well as several ...
High-resolution scans Masahiro Yanagawa, a radiologist at Osaka University, believes that noise-free, high-resolution CT scans will be a game-changer in diagnosing lung diseases. “The lungs are ...
Liam Handley - who had suffered from anxiety for much of his life - went to his GP with chest pains, which his doctor put ...
Using just one inhalation lung CT scan, a deep learning model can accurately diagnose and stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to a study published today in Radiology ...
There are different types of tests available to detect lung cancer, including a relatively simple screening known as a low-dose CT scan. George Barlow, a former smoker who was diagnosed with non ...