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What Causes Pain In Chest With A Breast Pain?

healthy 3 week old baby boy, becomes sob, not eating is taken to hospital. baby is put on oxygen and is doing better, but continues to need oxygen. after blood tests, chest xray are normal, they do an ekg and discover a

blood clot between the heart artery and the lung. what can cause this and what is the treatment. the baby weighed 9lb 15 oz at birth, was delivered by c-section when being induce wasnt working, the baby was born completely normal was being breast fed,
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Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic.
I can understand your concern.
By your history and description, your son is having pulmonary embolism.
It is blood clot in pulmonary artery.
Since his age is only 3 weeks, possibility of congenital coagulation defect is more.
Coagulation system is there in the body. There are two kind of chemicals, coagulants and anti coagulants in the body.
Coagulants will form blood clots while anti coagulants will prevent clot formation.
So in your child's case there must be higher coagulants and absent anti coagulants.
Such diseases are as follows.
1. Protein C deficiency
2. Protein S deficiency
3. Homocysteinuria
4. Hypervitaminosis K etc.
So better to consult hematologist and get done blood levels of these chemicals.
Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wishing good health to your son. Thanks.
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What Causes Pain In Chest With A Breast Pain?

Thanks for your question on Healthcare Magic. I can understand your concern. By your history and description, your son is having pulmonary embolism. It is blood clot in pulmonary artery. Since his age is only 3 weeks, possibility of congenital coagulation defect is more. Coagulation system is there in the body. There are two kind of chemicals, coagulants and anti coagulants in the body. Coagulants will form blood clots while anti coagulants will prevent clot formation. So in your child s case there must be higher coagulants and absent anti coagulants. Such diseases are as follows. 1. Protein C deficiency 2. Protein S deficiency 3. Homocysteinuria 4. Hypervitaminosis K etc. So better to consult hematologist and get done blood levels of these chemicals. Hope I have solved your query. I will be happy to help you further. Wishing good health to your son. Thanks.