Unprovoked pulmonary thromboembolism is a very difcult diagnosis owing to the fact that PTE should be suspected based on clinical presentation and conrmed with CT-pulmonary angiogram, but since unprovoked requires no identiable causes are the required criteria makes it even more difcult to start the treatment on early basis. Here is a case series of unprovoked PTE to make aware the prevalence of the same in the ER and to prompt necessary investigations and signs to diagnosis the condition.
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