Question

What happens when you get blood clots?

Answer 1

when a clot obstructs an artery (or thrombus) and thus prevents the flow of blood and oxygen to an organ, this can create a tissue injury, ie, an infarct. When blood clots break off (embolism) from the area they need to protect, they can put other organs at risk.

Clots that obstruct blood flow are the main cause of most strokes and heart attacks.

Answer 2

Blood clots can cause a variety of different problems, some as minor to little pinpricks of pain to highly lethal conditions, such as Heart attacks.

Blood clots are split into two different categories; Thrombi (or stationary clots) or Embolism (traveling clots, Thrombi that have broken and begin flowing through the blood stream. Essentially blood clots cause problem by obstructing the flow of blood, which is vital to get oxygen and nutrient to cells, to bodily tissues proximal to the clot. Depending on the organ and where its at lethal conditions can arise; Myocardial Infractions (heart attacks, heart cells begin dying), CVA/TIA (cerebrovascular accidents/ Transient Ischemic Attacks, or strokes... Obstructions of the brain), or pulmonary embolisms (clots that obstruct blood flow in the pulmonary vasculature).