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"These clots are a main cause of both heart attacks and stroke and the more quickly you can eliminate them the better," says Karthikeshwar Kasirajan, MD, assistant professor of surgery in the Emory University School of Medicine.

If DVTs embolize, they won't normally cause heart attacks and stroke. They can become a pulmonary embolus, but they won't get past the lungs unless someone has an anatomical defect like an atrial septal defect, ventricular septal defect, etc.