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Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report

An artery blockage by a foreign body, such as a blood clot/fat/air/cholesterol/amniotic fluid, is called an embolism. The most serious conditions caused by an embolism are stroke and pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign body blocks the vessel that carries blood from the...

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Autores principales: Chavhan, Amruta, Anjankar, Ashish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407157
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30448
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description An artery blockage by a foreign body, such as a blood clot/fat/air/cholesterol/amniotic fluid, is called an embolism. The most serious conditions caused by an embolism are stroke and pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign body blocks the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has the potential to embolize and travel through the right side of the heart and become lodged in the blood-supplying artery of the lungs: the pulmonary artery. DVT is one of the major causes of pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening disease that can sometimes be problematic to point at, especially when the patient has no obvious symptoms. The risk factors may not be strikingly palpable, and there may also be an intersection between the symptoms and signs of pulmonary embolism and other diseases. Syncope is a comparatively easy clinical symptom to detect but has varied etiologies that lead to a standard cause in only 58% of syncopal events. It is a difficult correlation to make when syncope is the presenting symptom of pulmonary embolism. Family history in the case of undiagnosed pulmonary embolism presenting with symptoms that point in no particular direction becomes crucial in determining the disease.
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spelling pubmed-96725342022-11-18 Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report Chavhan, Amruta Anjankar, Ashish Cureus Emergency Medicine An artery blockage by a foreign body, such as a blood clot/fat/air/cholesterol/amniotic fluid, is called an embolism. The most serious conditions caused by an embolism are stroke and pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign body blocks the vessel that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) has the potential to embolize and travel through the right side of the heart and become lodged in the blood-supplying artery of the lungs: the pulmonary artery. DVT is one of the major causes of pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolism is a life-threatening disease that can sometimes be problematic to point at, especially when the patient has no obvious symptoms. The risk factors may not be strikingly palpable, and there may also be an intersection between the symptoms and signs of pulmonary embolism and other diseases. Syncope is a comparatively easy clinical symptom to detect but has varied etiologies that lead to a standard cause in only 58% of syncopal events. It is a difficult correlation to make when syncope is the presenting symptom of pulmonary embolism. Family history in the case of undiagnosed pulmonary embolism presenting with symptoms that point in no particular direction becomes crucial in determining the disease. Cureus 2022-10-18 /pmc/articles/PMC9672534/ /pubmed/36407157 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.30448 Text en Copyright © 2022, Chavhan et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title_full Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title_short Pulmonary Embolism With Underlying Family History Presenting as Syncope: A Case Report
title_sort pulmonary embolism with underlying family history presenting as syncope: a case report
topic Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9672534/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36407157
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