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What are some complications that arise from pulmonary embolism?
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Pulmonary and heart: A blood clot to the lung can cause high right heart pressures with heart failure, as well as lung problems due to dysfunction or destruction of a segment of lung, or bleeding due to pulmonary infarction. Those are only the tip of the iceberg.
Answered 9/28/2016
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Multiple: Death lung death-infarction hemoptysis is- coughing blood lung abscess arrythmias pulmonary- lung hypertension heart failure bleeding from treatment with anticoagulants.
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