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“It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.”

Lou Holtz, (1937), retired American football coach, active sportscaster, author and motivational speaker.

Heart Manifestations of Lung Emboli

Those can be multiple and thus misleading.

Sudden death is the result most frequently of rhythm disturbances, which are manifold, each being able to end with fatality.

They have been studied by all medical community for a century, the point being that professionals seldom think about thromboses being the culprit.

Every practitioner knows about the one killing all of a sudden, but such knowledge is obsolete.

Before that, there is a long period during which the disorder goes undiagnosed.

Modern ultrasound machines permit a lot of reliability in examining the calf muscles, but diligence on the side of practitioners is often missing.

Another issue is dyspnea, which also ends up on the table of the echocardiographer.

The problem here is the same, or as Hippocrates already put it: “Physicians are many by name, but few in reality!”

Interested more by money than the patient’s problem, the doctor entrusts the examination to his assistant and does not spend more than 3 minutes on it.

This time is by far insufficient to get proficiency in it.

Heart dyskinesias are easy to pinpoint and are diagnostic of the entity.

They involve only the right ventricle, but as this happens at the apex, the untrained observer thinks about the left ventricle.

Their disordinate contraction makes him think the heart is fluffy, and he asks for an MRI (Magical Radiological Imaging).

Hence, if you have a similar presentation, think about chronic lung emboli!