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What is the likelihood of a blood clot in my lungs if my blood oxygen level is 95%-97%?
6 doctors weighed in across 4 answers
Blood clot: Unlikely. There have to be more symptoms of blood clot than just o2level.Usually have shortness of breath and pain with breathing and hypoxia. A ct of lung can diagnose it.
Answered 4/5/2020
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Unlikely: With tat high of an o2 level it is highly unlikely. What symptoms are you having.
Answered 9/16/2018
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Risks: Calculating the risks of a blood clot in your lungs is difficult to do when given only the information of oxygen saturation. A saturation between 95-97% is at or very close to normal, hence it would be impossible to speculate on presence of clot or not. In fact, blood clots to the lung can occur and still result in a normal oxygen saturation between 97-100% clinicians use other factors for risk.
Answered 2/6/2019
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Very small if any: Provided you are not taking any supplemental oxygen, these values you have listed are normal. Yet small blood closts can lodge in the lungs and not show up or reflect in the blood oxygen saturation/ levels.
Answered 11/23/2018
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