A 52 year old man suffers a pulmonary embolism in his right leg. Describe pathway from leg to lung.?

Question

Please describe how this condition develops

Answer 1

Pulmonary embolism is a condition that occurs when an artery in your lung becomes blocked. In most cases, the blockage is caused by one or more blood clots that travel to your lungs from another part of your body.

A blood clot is a plug of platelets — colorless blood cells that repair injured blood vessels — enmeshed in a network of red blood cells and fibrin, a type of protein. Clots normally develop to help stop bleeding after you've been cut or injured, but sometimes clots form for no apparent reason.

  blood flow throught the body follows this path..

Deoxygenated blood from the entire body to superior vena cavaa to

right atrium to  tricuspid AV toright venticle  to SL valve to

pulmonary artery  lungs for oxygenation to pulmonary veins to

left atrium to bicuspid AV valveto  left venticle  aortic SL valve to

aorta then the oxygenated blood goes through the body and process repeats.