A 46-year-old member asked:
What are the tests for blood clot in lung?
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A Verified Doctoranswered
41 years experience
CT of lungs: The beginning of all good testing is having the doctor take a good history and do a good physical exam. If the results are strongly suggestive of someone having a blood clot in the lungs (pulmonary embolism-pe), then a blood test called a d-dimer might be ordered. If that is low, you don't have a clot. If high, the gold standard of testing for a pe is a spiral cat scan of the lungs with infusion.
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A 37-year-old member asked:
What are the tests for blood clots in the lung?
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A Verified Doctoranswered
41 years experience
CT scan of lungs: The beginning of all good testing is having the doctor take a good history and do a good physical exam. If the results are strongly suggestive of someone having a blood clot in the lungs (pulmonary embolism-pe), then a blood test called a d-dimer might be ordered. If that is low, you don't have a clot. If high, the gold standard of testing for a pe is a spiral cat scan of the lungs with infusion.
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A 43-year-old member asked:
What to do about blood clot in either lung?
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Dr. Pramil Cheriyathanswered
Specializes in Internal Medicine
Need blood thinner: This is a dangerous life threatening situation
if you have a blood clot in the lung, you need to be on a blood thinner.
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A 29-year-old member asked:
What should be done about blood clots in the lungs?
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Dr. Aasim Sehbaianswered
Medical Oncology 25 years experience
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A 41-year-old member asked:
Blood clot in the lungs?
4 doctor answers • 26 doctors weighed in
Dr. Carlo Hatemanswered
Pulmonary Critical Care 26 years experience
&?: Likely came from somewhere else in the body, usually the legs. Many risk factors are identified, including long travel, surgery, and genetic predisposition. Treatment is blood thinners. They can be deadly.
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A 38-year-old member asked:
What happens when you have blood clot in your lungs?
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Dr. Alexander Barkananswered
General Surgery 25 years experience
Pulmonary embolus: Can be life threatening, need blood thinning medication and urgent doctor and/ or emergency room evaluation, if you are not in a hospital already!
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