can someone explain to me what this is pls bc i was in a hospital a while back and had someone at the hospital i was at diagnose me with this i think??
guessing it might be lung or blood related bc i had multiple ct scans and xrays of my chest bc of the immense chest pain i was in and i had my blood taken probably at least like 3 times daily and i was in that hospital quite litteraly all of april
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Your lungs, like all organs, have a blood supply. The pulmonary arteries supply blood TO the lungs from the heart, and the veins supply blood FROM the lungs to the heart.
An embolus is a piece of blood clot that has broken off in one part of the body and gets lodged in a different part.
A pulmonary embolus is when this clot lodges itself in the pulmonary arteries and obstructs the lungs’ blood supply – as you can imagine, this is potentially life threatening. The most common association is a blood clot in the deep veins of the legs embolizing to the lungs.
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