Thomas A. Sos

TL;DR: In patients with suspected pulmonary embolism, multidetector CTA-CTV has a higher diagnostic sensitivity than does CTA alone, with similar specificity, and additional testing is necessary when the clinical probability is inconsistent with the imaging results.

TL;DR: Renal angioplasty is effective for long-term control of hypertension in patients with renal-artery stenosis due to fibromuscular dysplasia or unilateral non-ostial atheroma.

TL;DR: The sequence for diagnostic test in patients with suspected pulmonary embolism depends on the D-dimer measured by the quantitative rapid enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), and the combination of a negative D- dimer with a low or moderate clinical probability can safely exclude pulmonary emblism in many patients.

TL;DR: Patients with primary aldosteronism who are followed at The Cardiovascular Center at The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center are sought to identify features that would predict favorable responses to treatment and to attempt to understand why adrenalectomy often fails to produce a sustained reduction in blood pressure.

TL;DR: Blood pressure and renal function were not significant predictors of pulmonary oedema, but coronary heart disease and bilateral renal artery stenosis were, and may be a specific and treatable predisposing factor to pulmonary oingema in azotaemic hypertensive patients.