Health Insurance points out that this pathology is the obstruction of an artery in the lung by a blood clot. The affected organ can no longer supply oxygen to the body. Often, the clot forms in the patient’s legs before traveling back to the heart and then to the lungs. Several causes favor pulmonary embolism: smoking, a fracture or even cancer. According to the latest figures from Health Insurance, the rate of people treated for a pulmonary embolism in Seine-et-Marne was 0.8 per 1,000, which is slightly high.
Nicolas Everyone
