Pulmonary vascular disease & thromboembolism

Optimal approach to performing and reporting computed tomography angiography for suspected acute pulmonary embolism: a clinical consensus statement of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation & Right Ventricular Function, the Fleischner Society, the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC, endorsed by European Respiratory Society (ERS), Asian Society of Thoracic Radiology (ASTR), European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI), and Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR)

Eur Heart J Cardiovasc ImagingPublished Clinical consensus statement

Scope

As issued by the authors

a current update of computed tomography angiography (CTA) techniques, a definition of often used nomenclature and recommendations on the proposed content of CTA reports along with a detailed image atlas with instructions on how to assess all relevant CTA findings and a lay language guidance on the meaning of these findings

Original publication

Optimal approach to performing and reporting computed tomography angiography for suspected acute pulmonary embolism: a clinical consensus statement of the ESC Working Group on Pulmonary Circulation & Right Ventricular Function, the Fleischner Society, the Association for Acute CardioVascular Care (ACVC) and the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI) of the ESC, endorsed by European Respiratory Society (ERS), Asian Society of Thoracic Radiology (ASTR), European Society of Thoracic Imaging (ESTI), and Society of Thoracic Radiology (STR). Eur Heart J Cardiovasc Imaging. Published 3 June 2025. doi:10.1093/ehjci/jeaf050

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