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Evvie72

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What percentage of patients with pulmonary embolism have pulmonary infarction as a complica-tion?
 
  a. Less than 10
  b. Approximately 25
  c. Approximately 40
  d. Approximately 65

Question 2

Most pulmonary infarctions associated with thromboembolic obstruction occur in which part of the lung?
 
  a. Right lung
  b. Lung bases
  c. Lung apexes
  d. Left lung



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Answer to Question 1

ANS: A
Embolism to the pulmonary circulation produces pulmonary hemorrhage in the ischemic area and infarction (or tissue death from deprivation of blood flow) in fewer than 10 of cases of pulmo-nary embolism. Infarction is less common than thromboembolism because the lung has two blood supplies: the pulmonary arterial circulation and the bronchial circulation.

Answer to Question 2

ANS: B
Pulmonary infarction is associated with thromboembolic obstruction of a medium-sized pulmo-nary artery and generally occurs at the lung bases where it usually presents as a wedge-shaped opacity on chest images.





 

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