Assertion: blood clot | /r/Causes | pulmonary embolism
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text: Some blood clots are especially dangerous as they can travel to a person’s lungs, causing a pulmonary embolism that can be fatal.
text: The Mayo Clinic warns that blood clots can travel to your lungs and cause pulmonary embolisms 12.
text: There are additional risk factors that increase your chances of having the type of blood clot that can cause pulmonary embolism.
text: Thus, the blood clot that has traveled to lungs can cause pulmonary embolism, whereas if the blood clot lodges in the heart, it can disrupt blood flow, which may lead to a heart attack.
text: Blood clots can cause conditions such as strokes, angina, arterial embolisms, deep vein thrombosis, heart attacks, pulmonary embolisms and renal vein thrombosis.