DVT/ PE Animation
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- A pulmonary embolism is a blockage of an artery, or arteries, in the lungs, most often caused by a clot broken off from a DVT in the lower extremities. Once the clot breaks off a venous valve in the lower extremity, it travels with blood ow through the inferior vena cava, into the right heart, and out to the lungs through the pulmonary artery.
- Depending on the size of the embolus, it can occlude the main pulmonary artery, straddle the arterial bifurcation, or disseminate out into the smaller branching arteries of the lungs.
