Doctors warn: Pulmonary embolism symptoms often mistaken for panic attacks

Pulmonary embolism causes more deaths than myocardial infarction, with mortality risk increasing significantly when misdiagnosed as panic attacks.

When the body sounds its most desperate alarms — a hammering heart, stolen breath, crushing dread — the human instinct is often to reach for the nearest reassurance: it is only anxiety, only stress, only the mind playing tricks. But pulmonary embolism, a blood clot lodged in the lungs and the third most common cardiovascular disease in the world, wears precisely this disguise, and the cost of believing the reassurance can be a life. Doctors and patients alike are confronting a dangerous gap between what the body is signaling and what medicine too often hears.

Doctors warn: Pulmonary embolism symptoms often mistaken for panic attacks

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