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specific arteries and veins (ex. left jugular vein), but you DO have to mention general vessel types (ex. large vein) in the order the clot will encounter these vessels, and whether these vessels are in the pulmonary or systemic circulation. Please list (in order) the specific heart chambers and valves it might travel through in the heart. Then identify whether the clot is now traveling through the pulmonary or systemic circulation, and list the vessels it travels through before it lodges producing an embolism in a vessel narrower than itself. When you reply to someone’s post, please describe the consequences of having an embolism in that location, and identify one of the possible locations of an embolism produced by the scenario the original poster described.

          specific arteries and veins (ex. left jugular vein), but you DO have to mention general vessel types (ex. large vein) in the order the clot will encounter these vessels, and whether these vessels are in the pulmonary or systemic circulation.

Please list (in order) the specific heart chambers and valves it might travel through in the heart. Then identify whether the clot is now traveling through the pulmonary or systemic circulation, and list the vessels it travels through before it lodges producing an embolism in a vessel narrower than itself.

When you reply to someone’s post, please describe the consequences of having an embolism in that location, and identify one of the possible locations of an embolism produced by the scenario the original poster described.

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specific arteries and veins (ex. left jugular vein), but you DO have to mention general vessel types (ex. large vein) in the order the clot will encounter these vessels, and whether these vessels are in the pulmonary or systemic circulation.

Please list (in order) the specific heart chambers and valves it might travel through in the heart. Then identify whether the clot is now traveling through the pulmonary or systemic circulation, and list the vessels it travels through before it lodges producing an embolism in a vessel narrower than itself.

When you reply to someone’s post, please describe the consequences of having an embolism in that location, and identify one of the possible locations of an embolism produced by the scenario the original poster described.

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Solved by Expert Katherine Kartheiser

09/15/2023

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The clot starts in a deep vein of the lower extremity (e.g., deep vein thrombosis). This is a large vein in the systemic circulation. Show more…

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specific arteries and veins (ex. left jugular vein), but you DO have to mention general vessel types (ex. large vein) in the order the clot will encounter these vessels, and whether these vessels are in the pulmonary or systemic circulation. Please list (in order) the specific heart chambers and valves it might travel through in the heart. Then identify whether the clot is now traveling through the pulmonary or systemic circulation, and list the vessels it travels through before it lodges producing an embolism in a vessel narrower than itself. When you reply to someone’s post, please describe the consequences of having an embolism in that location, and identify one of the possible locations of an embolism produced by the scenario the original poster described.

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00:01 So the first thing that we have to get down on here is just the pulmonary and systemic circuits.

00:08 So i've drawn a really rough version of the heart here and so let's start on the right side of the heart.

00:14 If the blood is coming back from the body, we are traveling in a large vein.

00:18 We are traveling in a vein known as the vena cava.

00:21 There are actually two of them, one superior, one inferior, depending if you're coming from the top or the bottom of the body.

00:27 You will enter into the right atrium.

00:36 That is the first chamber of the heart.

00:40 Then you will pass through the av valve, the atrioventricular valve, into the ventricle, the right ventricle, because we're on the right side of the heart.

01:01 The right ventricle pumps out via the pulmonary artery.

01:06 There's actually two pulmonary arteries, one for each side.

01:18 And then you enter the capillaries in the lungs.

01:30 Once you pick up the oxygen, you return to the heart via the pulmonary vein, each lung via a pulmonary vein, into the left atrium of the heart.

01:52 Then you pass through the left av valve, atrioventricular valve, into the left ventricle, which is another heart chamber.

02:07 Then the left ventricle pumps out, out of the heart, through the biggest artery that you have, known as the aorta.

02:22 Then this will travel to your systemic capillaries...

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