Kauai's latest luxury hotel sits on a prime stretch of Poipu Beach, and has 121 mod-meets-island-style rooms. The spa focuses on indigenous ingredients, like seaweed, Red Kauai clay, and guava. Rooms from $349; Ko'a Kea Resort.
Pulmonary embolism or blood clots in the lungs is a problem which occurs when one or even more arteries in the lungs are blocked. In many cases, blood clots in the lungs are caused by clots of blood that flow to your lungs from another area of the body â most frequently, your legs.
Pulmonary Thromboembolic Disease. Approximately 300,000 people each year suffer from blood clots in the blood vessels of the lungs (pulmonary emboli). Some patients with pulmonary emboli develop chronic pulmonary thromboembolic disease. This is when the blood clots recur over weeks, months, or even years. These clots block the flow of blood from the right side of the heart, through the lungs, to the left side of the heart.