What Is a Pulmonary Embolism? A pulmonary embolism (PE) happens when a blood clot suddenly blocks an artery that supplies blood to your lungs. Pulmonary embolism happens when a blood clot travels ...

A pulmonary embolism occurs when one or more blood clots move from somewhere in your body to the lungs. The clot becomes lodged in a pulmonary (lung) artery and blocks the blood flow. A pulmonary ...

PULMONARY embolism, once regarded as an unavoidable accident of surgery, today preoccupies the minds of many clinicians, physicians and surgeons alike. For it is recognized as a threatened ...

The femoral vein, a blood vessel located deep inside each of the thighs, is prone to blood clots. Known as femoral vein thrombosis, a blood clot in the femoral vein or its branches can have serious ...

In patients with pulmonary embolism, temporal improvements in hospital length of stay and initial pharmacological intervention appear to have yielded significant reductions in short-term all-cause and ...

Mervyn Rothstein loves walking through New York City, covering at least three miles each day. In March, he started experiencing shortness of breath during his walks so he reached out to his doctor.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Results of a 5-year study in Japan suggest pulmonary embolism may be a major cause of sudden cardiac arrest ...

Jamaican-born and Mount Vernon-raised rapper Heavy D died of natural causes, the Los Angeles coroner's office said Tuesday. The self-proclaimed "overweight lover" of hip-hop, who became one of rap's ...

Guru Jagat, a well-known Kundalini yoga teacher who worked with celebrities, has died after suffering from a pulmonary embolism. In her final Instagram post on July 31, Jagat gave what she described ...

Pulmonary, or lung, infarction (PI) refers to the death of lung tissue due to a lack of blood supply. Symptoms include chest pain and coughing up blood. It usually stems from another health issue, ...