Samajwadi Party (SP) founder Mulayam Singh Yadav’s 38-year-old younger son Prateek Yadav died due to pulmonary thromboembolism, a report in the Indianexpress said. According to the post-mortem findings, the immediate cause of death was a massive blockage in the pulmonary arteries caused by thromboembolic material, or “cardiorespiratory collapse caused by massive pulmonary thromboembolism”.

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Pulmonary thromboembolism, or pulmonary embolism, occurs when a blood clot blocks one of the blood vessels in the lungs. In most cases, the clot does not start in the lungs.…