Affiliation:
1. Junior Resident, Department of General Medicine prathima institute of medical sciences
2. Junior Resident, Department of General Medicine; prathima institute of medical sciences
3. Consultant Cardiologist, Professor And Head Of Department Of Medicine.
Abstract
Pulmonary embolism accounts to one -third causes of cardiovascular mortality. It is responsible for
1,00,000 cardiovascular disease related deaths.Only 7% of the patients with PTE who die are correctly
diagnosed before death. There are acquired and genetic risk factors responsible for thromboembolism. Recent
surgery,trauma,immobilisation, pregnancy, OCPs are commonest acquired factors which are most of the time temporary in
nature.Other factors such as smoking, atherosclerosis, obesity, malignancies pose greatest risk for PTE. Pulmonary embolism in
young adults is not very uncommon.Most of the young patients reported in the literature are young females either pregnant or on
OCPs. Here we present a case of 21 yr old male with acute PTE diagnosed to be protein C decient.
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