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Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot inside a vessel, obstructing the flow of blood to end organs. Thrombosis may occur in veins or in arteries. Venous thrombosis leads to congestion of the affected part of the body, while arterial thrombosis (and rarely severe venous thrombosis) affects the blood supply and leads to damage of the tissue supplied by that artery (ischemia). A piece of either an arterial or a venous thrombus can break off as an embolus which can travel through the circulation and lodge somewhere else as an embolism. This type of embolism is known as a thromboembolism. Complications can arise when a clot from deep veins of the extremities lodges in the lung as a pulmonary embolism (PE).