Jeremy’s Story: How a “small health issue” ended up being a high-risk pulmonary embolism

Jeremy Sipe, an avid runner in his 50s, knew something was wrong when he experienced shortness of breath after just a few steps on his treadmill. He called his doctor and ended up in the hospital diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism. Pulmonary embolisms, which affect roughly 370,000 Americans per year, occur when blood clots get caught in the arteries of the lungs and can cause difficulty breathing, an irregular heartbeat and chest pain. Watch how Penumbra’s latest technology in mechanical thrombectomy is helping patients like Jeremy.