India, May 14 -- The post-mortem examination conducted on Prateek Yadav's body found that he suffered a "cardiorespiratory collapse due to massive pulmonary thromboembolism," indicating that a large blood clot had severely obstructed blood flow in the lungs and triggered sudden failure of the heart and respiratory system, according to the autopsy report accessed by HT.

The findings suggest that Yadav was suffering from a critical pulmonary thromboembolic condition at the time of death. In medical terms, pulmonary thromboembolism occurs when blood clots travel through the bloodstream and become lodged in the arteries of the lungs, blocking circulation and oxygen exchange. Doctors describe the condition as potentially fatal, particularly w...