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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I think the very nice way of putting this would be imagine your legs like a motorway, and your penile area as a off road which reconnects into the highway eventually.
If the highway gets blocked, the entire traffic gets blocked (thrombus). Sometimes the pressure will build up and break the clot in the leg or the plasminogens break it down enough, however this is just as bad as this super fast highway is trying to get back to the lungs. When it reaches the lungs it can later cause a blockage known as a pulmonary embolism.
This is also why we call it deep vein thrombosis, as it’s such an important vein that if it gets blocked it can be critical to our health. Our body has literally nowhere to send the blood and when the clots do break free they will simply cause more blockages. Eventually it becomes a pulmonary embolism if it blocks the lungs, and that is fatal.
Now any form of blood clot can cause for an embolism to occur, however permanent m thrombosis can actually be prevented as your body will want to break down the clot as soon as it can. If a clot enters into the more major vein then chances are it’s likely going to meet more plasminogens which will break it down before it becomes a problem.
If it doesn’t break down, it can cause a clot in something more important, but it’s more unlikely if the clot isn’t happening in the main vein. Especially seeming as these bigger veins are a lot more spacious and designed to push more blood through.
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