| Common causes of CVA include thrombosis, embolism or hemorrhage due to an aneurysm. |
| For example, if the person has an air embolism in the arteries carrying blood to the brain, it may cause seizures. |
| Other cardiovascular causes include severe mitral stenosis and pulmonary embolism. |
| Some Welshman told me I had to read this book, though forewarned me that page 136 would induce an embolism. |
| However, the patient had desquamative interstitial pneumonitis and superimposed bronchopneumonia, not pulmonary embolism. |
| But when heated to body temperature in a patient's bloodstream, the toxicologists theorized, it gasified, causing a fatal pulmonary embolism. |
