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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The clots in the legs that cause problems are in large veins that go more directly to the right side of the heart and then to the lungs. Large clots can form and break off and block blood flow to parts of the lungs which is very dangerous. Smaller clots pretty much anywhere else generally wont make it the lungs, as they have a log way to go and the body has mechanisms for breaking up clots.
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