Foreign body. Atelectasis is common in children who have inhaled an object, such as a peanut or small toy part, into their lungs. Narrowing of major airways from disease. Chronic infections, including fungal infections, tuberculosis and other diseases, can scar and constrict major airways. Tumor in a major airway.
He'll be placed on blood thinners to break up the clots...which can take from days to weeks. This is also a very dangerous time for him, as a clot could travel and lodge in a coronary artery on his heart, causing a heart attack, or it could travel and lodge in an artery in his brain causing a stroke.
The location of the blood clot in the body determines how we treat the problem. Blockage below the knee. When the clot or blockage is limited to the blood vessels below the knee (the tibial veins), your body repairs itself in 90 percent of all cases. The blood vessel finds a way around the blockage and restores proper blood flow. This restoration process takes between three and six months.