Assessment of Pulmonary Embolism: Type, Site and affected Age using CT angiography

Abstract

The objectives of this study were to Ct angiography of pulmonary embolism: types, site and affected group of age The study included fifty (50) patients 9 males and 41 females with clinically diagnosed of PE , and were grouped according to sex, according to age the study finding in 21 patients (42%) with age range (60-70) years,13 patients (26%) with age range (40-50) years ,10 patients (20%) with range (50-60) years, 5 patients (10%) with range (30-40) years and 1 patient with range (70-80) , according to this result PE is rare in young patients (70-80) years and is more common in elder patients (60-70) years. This study has showed that CT is the best modality to identifying and localizing pulmonary embolism, the incident of pulmonary embolism iscommon in elder patients. The common site affected in pulmonary embolism is both sides.The multislides computerized tomography studies of the pulmonary small vessels can provide higher-quality images than those obtained at single and dual slide CT. It concluded that CT scanning is the only test that can provide significant additional information related to alternate diagnoses