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A stroke is caused by a blood clot. Clots may be dangerous when they arise from atherosclerosis. The resulting clot can completely block the artery. When this happens in an artery supplying blood to the heart, it causes a heart attack. When a clot forms in an artery that is responsible to feed the brain, it can cause an ischemic stroke, the most common kind of stroke. Clots not related to plaque can also form in places where blood settles abnormally. For example, people with persistent atrial fibrillation are at increased risk of clots, and clots generated by atrial fibrillation can travel to the brain and lead to a stroke. Clots can also fail to dissolve after an injury has healed. This can cause serious complications. Some of the complications such as stroke could be serious and even life-threatening. In addition, the clots can travel through progressively larger veins, through the vena cava, and through the right side of the heart, and then wedges into one of the pulmonary arteries or its branches, resulting in pulmonary embolism (PE). Three to four percent of all patients who experience PE suffer from chronic obstruction of blood flow through the lungs that is called as chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension (CTEPH).

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