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- Pulmonary Embolism
- SYMPTOMS. The only sign may be breathlessness or it may include chest pain,
- coughing, spitting of blood and fever.
- CAUSES. It is a blood clot that is carried in the bloodstream to an artery
- in the lung, usually, from deep in a leg vein where it was formed.
- TREATMENT. Oxygen may be required.
- .Pain relivers and anticoagulant drugs may be prescribed.
- .Removal of the clot by surgery may be required.