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What is a pulmonary embolus?

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What is a pulmonary embolus?

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If a large blood clot in a deep vein in the leg dislodges it can be carried in the veins (called an embolus) to the heart and then into the arteries to the lungs (the pulmonary arteries) where it lodges and reduces the blood flow to the lungs.

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