Serena Williams | Pulmonary Embolism Symptoms

The 29-year-old tennis star Serena Williams was seen making numerous trips to Cedars-Sinai Center of Los Angeles physicians in the last week and her representative confirmed to People magazine that the athlete is faced with a health warning. Williams has not played a WTA match since injuring her right foot just days after winning Wimbledon in July.

Pulmonary embolism, also called a blood clot in the lungs is a serious disease that can have lethal consequences, even for young and healthy. Serena Williams suffered a blood clot during the last week of February and required additional treatment on March 1.

The risk of pulmonary embolism is that it reduces the oxygen in any part of the body serves the arteries are clogged. National Institute of Health, described PE as a sudden block of the pulmonary artery usually caused when the blood clot in the veins of the legs to move to the lungs.