Exertional dyspnea: A misleading presentation of pulmonary embolism (Misdiagnosis of blocked arteries is high)

Medical Xpress / Anticoagulazione / Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis ^ | Jan. 24, 2023 | Fondazione Arianna / Paolo Prandoni et al

[ConservativeMind]

The Pulmonary Embolism Dyspnea Italian Study (PEDIS) has demonstrated for the first time that the recent onset of severe respiratory fatigue due to minor efforts, especially in young subjects, can be a symptom revealing a pulmonary embolism in 1 out of 3 cases.

The study, which involved over 400 patients under the age of 75 from 14 Italian hospitals, documented how 32% of the subjects who went to the emergency room due to onset, in the previous month, of severe respiratory difficulty (dyspnea) arousing after minimal and previously well tolerated physical exertion (such as walking 100 meters on level ground) had an underlying pulmonary embolism.

This percentage reached about 47.3% of patients who also presented with other signs or symptoms suggestive of pulmonary embolism (such as tachycardia, chest pain or syncope) but remained not negligible (20%) in those who turned to the emergency department for the onset of isolated exertional dyspnea.

"Faced with the presence of this symptom, the physician generally thinks of heart failure, ischemic heart disease, bronchial asthma, pneumonia or other pulmonary diseases, aortic stenosis, thyrotoxicosis, anemic states, even psychic alterations," explained Professor Paolo Prandoni, first author of the research, "but the results of this study clearly indicate that we must evaluate any patient who arrives in the emergency room for severe exertional dyspnea, especially if young, for pulmonary embolism (primarily through clinical probability and d-dimer) even if the symptom has arisen for several days and we are in the presence of alternative diagnoses that could justify it."

[ConservativeMind]

Question your doctor around a severe fatigue diagnosis.

It may be a blocked artery, but they think it’s something else, partly because you are still functioning and conscious, it would seem.

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[Bobalu]

The incidence of pulmonary embolism seems to be on the rise...

[ro_dreaming]

I’ve had dyspnea on exertion since I as in the Navy. I didn’t have it before my service, so it’s a service connected disability.

I’ll read this information carefully.

Thanks!

[ASOC]

I went to the ER with breathing problems and tachycardia

Told the reception toad I was having either a heart attack or blood clots in my lungs. After putting me on O2, the doc used an ultrasound to check my lungs. Yup - clots big time. Ditto for right leg.
A more detailed check (CAT scan with dye and a longer ultrasound showed clotting in both lungs and right leg.) Massive clot in left leg.

Yes, had the J&J clot shot - now *banned* worldwide.

The ICU doc told me it was a good thing I came in - had I blown it off as walking pneumonia, I would have died that night.

Now better after 3 days in ICU and blood thinner for 6 months.

With the J&J ‘vaccine’, it is just a matter of time before it catches up with you.