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MeSH Heading: Pulmonary Infarction
Tree Number(s): C08.381.746.500; C14.907.355.350.700.500; C23.550.513.355.875; C23.550.717.489.875
Unique ID: D054060
RDF Unique Identifier: http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D054060
Scope Note: NECROSIS of lung tissue that is cause by the lack of OXYGEN or blood supply. The most common cause of pulmonary infarction is a blood clot in the lung.
Entry Version: PULM INFARCT
Entry Term(s): Infarction, Pulmonary; Pulmonary Infarct
Previous Indexing: Pulmonary Embolism (1963-2007)
Public MeSH Note: 2008; see PULMONARY EMBOLISM 1998-2007
History Note: 2008 (1998)
Date Established: 2008/01/01
Date of Entry: 2007/07/09
Revision Date: 2019/07/02

Allowable Qualifiers: blood (BL)

cerebrospinal fluid (CF)

chemically induced (CI)

classification (CL)

complications (CO)

congenital (CN)

diagnosis (DI)

diagnostic imaging (DG)

diet therapy (DH)

drug therapy (DT)

economics (EC)

embryology (EM)

enzymology (EN)

epidemiology (EP)

ethnology (EH)

etiology (ET)

genetics (GE)

history (HI)

immunology (IM)

metabolism (ME)

microbiology (MI)

mortality (MO)

nursing (NU)

parasitology (PS)

pathology (PA)

physiopathology (PP)

prevention & control (PC)

psychology (PX)

radiotherapy (RT)

rehabilitation (RH)

surgery (SU)

therapy (TH)

urine (UR)

veterinary (VE)

virology (VI)

Pulmonary Infarction MeSH Descriptor Data 2025