{"id":5119,"date":"2015-03-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-09T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/2015\/03\/09\/pulmonary-embolism-more-common-than-most-realize\/"},"modified":"2023-06-23T12:48:35","modified_gmt":"2023-06-23T18:48:35","slug":"pulmonary-embolism-more-common-than-most-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/today\/pulmonary-embolism-more-common-than-most-realize\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulmonary embolism: more common than most realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>When Michelle Waller, a multi-sport athlete, felt a cramp in her right leg, she thought it was no big deal. But soon after during a triathlon, she felt like her lungs &#8220;were going to collapse.&#8221; A specialist later told her she had dozens of clots in her lungs.<\/p>\n<p>A blood clot in the lung, called a pulmonary embolism, is potentially deadly and much more common than most people realize. &#8220;It&#8217;s estimated that maybe 600,000 cases of pulmonary embolism occur in the U.S. each year,&#8221; says Dr. Todd Bull, Head of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uchealth.org\/locations\/uchealth-pulmonary-vascular-disease-clinic-anschutz\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Pulmonary Embolism Clinic<\/a> at UCHealth&#8217;s University of Colorado Hospital in Aurora.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/denver.cbslocal.com\/2015\/02\/27\/pulmonary-embolism-more-common-than-most-realize\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&gt;&gt; Watch the CBS4Denver.com video story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Michelle Waller, a multi-sport athlete, felt a cramp in her right leg, she thought it was no big deal. 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