TY - JOUR JF - Iranian-Rehabilitation-Journal JO - Iranian Rehabilitation Journal VL - 11 IS - 2 PY - 2013 Y1 - 2013/4/01 TI - Young Male’s Post Appendectomy Complication of Pulmonary Thromboembolism TT - N2 - The main goal of this report was to share with clinicians an atypical presentation of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) in a young male`s post-appendectomy, whom he had no significant predisposing factors for such disease. The case also introduced for re-examining the challenges of PTE clinical manifestations which may mimic other differential diagnosis. PTE is an abrupt blockage of the pulmonary artery by a thrombus. Such thrombus is generated by a blood clot which has been formed, separated and migrated from the leg and/or pelvic veins toward the lung.The lung tissue`s circulation is impaired which later episode results hypoxia and infarction. These events initiate a set of PTE clinical manifestations. SP - 81 EP - 86 AU - Akbari Kamrani, Ahmad Ali AU - Shemshadi, Hashem AU - Ghafoori, Mahyar AD - Department of Speech Therapy, University of Social Welfare and Rehablitation Sciences, Tehran, Iran. KW - Post-appendectomy KW - Surgical complication KW - Deep vein thrombosis KW - Pulmonary thromboembolism KW - Immobilization UR - http://irj.uswr.ac.ir/article-1-305-en.html ER -