Penile Mondor’s disease is a rare condition where you have penile blood clots. The condition resolves on its own and is not an emergency or life threatening. However having deep vein thrombosis is an emergency condition that needs attention right away because it’s life threatening.
I was under the impression that blood clots in veins can kill no matter where they are?
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When a clot forms in the vein in your legs, the blood that’s behind it is blocked and it wants to get back to the heart as more and more blood pools up behind it like a traffic jam, and as this pressure rises, eventually the clot will break/dislodge and start travelling towards the heart where it can go to the lung and cause a blockage causing the serious condition pulmonary embolism.
Penile vascular tissue however is spongy and so a blood clot will not backup flow as badly because the blood can just flow around the clot through the spongy tissue , and so the blood can return back to the heart without causing to big of a traffic jam, kinda like a detour when there is road works. Because the blood doesn’t back up as badly, the pressure doesn’t rise enough to cause the clot to break/dislodge and get pumped to the heart and then lungs. Instead your body naturally starts dissolving the clot/reabsorbing it
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