Ultrasound-Facilitated Endovascular System for Acute PE shown to Lower Pulmonary Hypertension

Gregory Piazza, MD, clinical instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, presented the results of a single-arm, multi center trial that tested the efficacy of the EkoSonic endovascular system. 150 patients, all with proximal pulmonary embolism (PE) and a dilated right ventricle (RV/VL ratio ≥0.9) were examined using ultrasound-delivered,…