What percentage of patients with pulmonary embolism have pulmonary infarction as a complication?

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Embolism to the pulmonary circulation produces pulmonary hemorrhage in the ischemic area and infarction (or tissue death from deprivation of blood flow) in fewer than 10% of cases of pulmonary embolism. Infarction is less common than thromboembolism because the lung has two blood supplies: the pulmonary arterial circulation and the bronchial circulation.

What Percentage of Patients with Pulmonary Embolism Have Pulmonary Infarction