I just got a call about my boyfriends Dad, he is going into emergency surgery, Is this serious and life threatening?
2006-09-19 03:41:36 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
Yes. These are common after surgery. Theyre referred to as pulmonary embolisms, and are usually treatable with anticoagulants or can be removed surgically. They can be, but are not often, fatal.
I'm cutting and pasting some info I pulled from wikipedia.com for you.
Pulmonary embolism is a blockage of an artery in the lungs by a blood clot, fat, air or clumped tumor cells. By far the most common form of pulmonary embolism is a thromboembolism, which occurs when a blood clot, generally a venous thrombus, becomes dislodged from its site of formation and embolizes to the arterial blood supply of one of the lungs. Symptoms may include difficulty breathing, pain during breathing, and more rarely circulatory instability and death. Treatment is with anticoagulant medication, such as warfarin. Other rarer forms of pulmonary embolism occur when material other than a blood clot is responsible. Such materials can include fat or bone (usually in association with significant trauma), air (often when diving), and amniotic fluid (affecting mothers during child-birth).
2006-09-19 03:54:51 · answer #1 · answered by sunburst35209 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They can be life threatening and depends on the severity and location. They can move around blocking function of other organs, however, medicine has come along way in the past 20 years. I survived a clot in my brain due to advances in clot buster drugs and have no permanent damages with the exception of a droopy eyelid. Hope, prayers can help greatly...........good luck !
2006-09-19 04:00:29 · answer #2 · answered by turbietech 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not personally
but i work at hospital that treats a lot of patients with these symptoms it can be life threatening if they didn't catch it in time
Just pray for a positive outcome
2006-09-19 03:45:08 · answer #3 · answered by jenniferevans32 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not me personally but I know 'of' someone who had one. They were hospitalized immidiately and put on some type of blood thinner. They were monitored until the doctors were sure it had broken up.
2006-09-19 03:51:50 · answer #4 · answered by Orangewedge 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it can be its pulmonary embolism
2006-09-19 04:08:58 · answer #5 · answered by mike L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Please see the webpages for more details on Pulmonary embolism.
2006-09-19 03:57:44 · answer #6 · answered by gangadharan nair 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋