Hello,

From the american heart assoc.

"Patients may present with clinical features of minor or major PE. Patients
with minor PE can have one or a combination of the following symptoms:
transient shortness of breath, sharp localized chest pain aggravated by
inspiration (pleuritic-type pain), and hemoptysis. The clinical features of
minor PE are nonspecific and can also occur in patients with viral or
bacterial pulmonary infections, postoperative atelectasis and pneumonia,
acute bronchitis, and musculoskeletal chest wall pain. Esophageal spasm can
cause severe chest pain that is not usually aggravated by breathing but may
be confused with PE. Pleuritic-type chest pain may accompany pericarditis or
immune pleuritis. In addition, patients with a past history of VTE may
suffer anxiety attacks that are manifested as shortness of breath and
occasionally as chest pain. These patients often have fleeting attacks of
sharp chest pain that last for seconds or a feeling that they cannot take a
deep breath."

I can see how it could be mistaken for a heart attack.  OH BTW you need NOT
be diving to kill over with this cause :)  I would recomend that you lighten
up about this whole thing.

Ed

-----Original Message-----
From: Trey [mailto:trey@ne*.co*]
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 8:34 PM
To: Techdiver@Aquanaut.Com; Quest@Gu*. Com
Cc: Wkpp@Ya*. Com; Tom Mount
Subject: Another "heart attack" ? RIGHT AGAIN



"George,

Got a call from XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX today about the Cause of Death in
Weinberg's
case.

King County ME says it was "vascular embolism".



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