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.
For people with blood clots in larger arteries, tPA. often does not dissolve them completely. In this. case, a procedure , called mechanical thrombectomy, should be done within six hours of the first symptoms. of stroke. In most cases this is done only after the. The majority of strokes occur when blood.