Pulmonary Embolism

Pathway for the diagnosis and management of Pulmonary Embolism.- Epidemiology, pathophysiology and predisposing factors of pulmonary embolism and Deep Vein Thrombosis.- Non-Imaging Diagnosis of pulmonary embolism.- Imaging modalities in PE: echocardiography.- Imaging Modalities in Venous-thromboembolism: Ultrasound for Lower Extremity Deep Venous  Thrombosis.- Imaging modalities in PE.- Ventilation/Perfusion Scintigraphy for the Diagnosis of Pulmonary Embolism and Chronic Thromboembolic Pulmonary Hypertension.- Imaging modalities in PE: Pulmonary angiography.- Integrating clinical, imaging and laboratory data to assess risk and to Guide Treatment in PE.- Management of the High-Risk Pulmonary Embolism in the acute phase - Respiratory, Hemodynamic and Mechanical Support.- Pharmacologic treatment in Pulmonary Embolism.- Catheter Directed Thrombolytic Therapy in Pulmonary Embolism.- Surgical Treatment of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- Pulmonary Embolism Response Team: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Improve Pulmonary Embolism Management.- Pulmonary embolism in pregnancy and the postpartum period.- Pulmonary embolism and cancer patients.- Chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension.- Pulmonary Embolism in the COVID 19.- Travel related Venous Thromboembolism.- Illustrative cases of multimodality imaging in the diagnosis and management of PE.- Pulmonary Embolism: Information for the patient and family.

Dr. Eyal Herzog serves as the Director of the Department of Cardiology at Hadassah Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, Israel.

Dr. Herzog is a Professor of Medicine at Mount Sinai Medical School in New York City where until 2019 he was the director of both the cardiac care unit and the echocardiography laboratories at Mount Sinai Saint Luke's Hospital.

Dr. Herzog had published extensively in the fields of Cardiology, Critical Care Cardiology and Echocardiography. He had authored six medical books and his books "The Cardiac Care survival guide" and "Herzog's  CCU book" where best sellers when they were published in 2012 and 2017 respectively. He is internationally known as an exceptional teacher and had received numerous teaching awards.