'It’s important to share experiences, especially when it’s something that’s not necessarily talked about,' she told TODAY.
After Zarreen Perpall felt easily winded and exhausted she went to the hospital where doctors learned she had blood clots in her heart and lungs. While they rushed her into surgery to remove the clots, Perpall was stunned by the possible cause: a large“I knew that there was something there. I didn’t know to what extent. I didn’t realize it was that big,” Perpall, 41, a camp and after-school program director from Brooklyn, told TODAY.
“It sounds like this was more than what I had in the past,” she explained. “So there’s fear and shock and ‘Shoot, why did this happen?’ All those things set in.”Clot treatment and a discovery During surgery to remove her clots, Zarreen Perpall's blood pressure dropped and doctors needed to perform CPR. They removed the clots and she's steadily recovering.But her blood pressure dipped again and they knew that they needed to move quickly to complete the pulmonary embolectomy, to remove the clot from her lungs. While it was a harrowing situation, Perpall is on the mend.
“The mass was the size of, I want to say, the size of a large softball. So it’s possible that the uterine fibroids had something to do with that,” he said. “They could have compressed the inferior vena cava and iliac veins and caused sluggishness of the blood flow leading to clot formation.” “They should be more aware and they should be seen by a hematologist,” Lattouf said. “The possibility of clot coagulation should be discussed with a hematologist.”
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