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If a person has a massive pulmonary embolism are they at greater risk for additional pulmonary embolisms?
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∙ 14y ago
I would say yes, but I'm not a doctor and this is a question that you should ask your doctor.
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What is the difference between cor pulmonale and pulmonary embolism?
A pulmonary embolism is a tissue fragment (part of a blood clot, fat, amniotic fluid, part of a tumour or bullet fragment) that became loose in the blood stream and was carried by the blood stream to a different location. A pulmonary embolism is, in most cases, a thromboembolism (part of a blood clot), which is carried from the deep veins of the legs or the pevis. It travels up the blood stream, through the inferior vena cava, into the heart, and subsequently into the pulmonary artery. In the pulmonary artery, it arrests, forming a potentially life threating occlusion. Cor pulmonale is hypertrophy of the right ventricle due to chronic pulmonary hypertension. The pulmonay hypertension means that the right ventricle has to pump blood with greater force, causing its muscle to hypertrophy (enlarge in size). Therefore, to summarize, a pulmonary embolism is an obstruction of pulmonary blood flow while cor pulmonale is the morphological change of the right ventricle due to pulmonary hypertension.
What are the two types of circulation of blood in the body?
Pulmonary and systemic
In A puncture of the dural sinus there is greater danger of blocking cardiac output because?
air embolism
An additional or greater amount of something?
The answer is more!
Has a greater partial pressure in the pulmonary capillaries than in the alveoli so it diffuses into the?
C02:alveoli
How much air in syringe needed to kill a person when injected to his vein?
I hope that you are not planning to murder someone, and that you are asking this question only out of curiosity. Any visible bubble could potentially cause an embolism, although there is no guaranteee that any given embolism will be fatal. The more air you inject, the greater the chance of fatality.
Which structure(s) carry oxygen-rich blood away from the heart?
The right ventricle pumps O2 poor blood into the lungs. The ventricular pressure has to be greater than that of the pulmonary artery to open the pulmonary valve and push the blood to the lungs.
which element would have a greater affinity for an additional electron Be or O?
Last time i cheacked it could be Be
What is greater 6.20 or 6.200?
It is the same. Additional zeroes don't change the number. However, in a measurement, 6.200 may indicate a greater precision than 6.20.
Is o2 concentration greater in the pulmonary capillaries or alveoli?
In the alveoli
Why anti coagulant is used?
In certain conditions, such as cardiovascular disease or following joint replacement surgery, the danger of forming large clots in the blood stream is greater than the danger of bleeding. Larger clots can block blood flow altogether in major blood vessels-- the larger the vessel blocked, the more tissues supplied by it, and the more damage done. Leading to heart attack, stroke, pulmonary embolism, etc, large clots are more deadly and less treatable after the fact than the side effects of preventive anticoagulants.
What are the two main circulatory routes in the body?
You have lesser circulation or the pulmonary circulation. Blood goes to lungs in this system from the right side of heart. You have greater circulation or the systemic circulation. Blood goes to all over the rest of body through this circulation. The amount of blood that flows is same in both the systems. You have about 25/15 mm of Hg pressure in pulmonary circulation. You have about 120/80 mm of Hg pressure in systemic circulation.
