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Treatment of Blood Clots

Treatment of Blood Clots

(Link to the American Heart Association)
This Cardiology Patient Page focuses on medical treatment of blood clots that can cause critical illness by blocking the blood supply to the heart, brain, lungs, or legs. Blood clots that develop in the arteries can cause heart attack, stroke, and severe leg pain and difficulty walking. Blood clots in the veins or venous system can cause deep venous thrombosis (DVT) in the pelvic, leg, and upper extremity veins. When these DVTs break off and travel through the bloodstream to the heart and then to the lung blood vessels, they cause acute pulmonary embolism (PE). … More