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To: 60Gunner
Shortness of breath means that you simply cannot get enough air to satisfy your body's craving for it.

What experience do you have with pulmonary thrombosis? It's been ages since I've looked up anything about it on-line, but back in 1999 I read that it was a very commonly-missed diagnosis. In at least one case I know of (late wife), progressive blood obstructions from blood clots were misdiagnosed as pneumonia. I would think that a lung-capacity test should have indicated that something other than pneumonia was at work (since it would show normal, despite patient's shortness of breath). Do you know what's being done in that area?

154 posted on 09/16/2006 11:55:27 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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To: supercat
Shortness of breath means that you simply cannot get enough air to satisfy your body's craving for it.

Sorry to repeat myself, but just in case my post got lost unnoticed among those that appeared since...

People here mention a number of emergency conditions. Does anyone here have experience with pulmonary thrombosis? How common is it these days, and how best can it be detected?

258 posted on 09/17/2006 4:22:43 PM PDT by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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