embolus

"It was what is called a saddle embolus," Green said.

When this happens, the blood flow is stopped by the embolus.

Thus, the source of the embolus must be identified.

I just assumed she must have thrown another embolus.

The artificial embolus used is usually one of the following:

Maybe he had phlebitis and they might find a pulmonary embolus or something.

An embolus is any substance that forms in one part of the body and then breaks off to travel elsewhere.

A clot that breaks free and begins to travel around the body is known as an embolus.

An arterial embolus can also form in the limbs.

Most patients with a pulmonary embolus are started on blood thinners and sent home within a few days.

See pictures of a stroke and an embolus .

Turned out he had a big pulmonary embolus.

It is primarily used to detect a Pulmonary embolus.

Any mass filling defects (embolus or other matter such as fat) appears darker.

The direction of the embolus can be one of two types:

Symptoms may begin quickly or slowly depending on the size of the embolus and how much it blocks the blood flow.

Because an embolus arises from elsewhere, local therapy solves the problem only temporarily.

It is possible to assess whether a thrombus will become an embolus through echocardiography.

The cause of death was cerebral embolus and arteriosclerosis.

Technical complications, such as trapped air (embolus) in the dialysis tube.

Pulmonary embolus, a sudden blockage of blood flow within the lung.

The death certificate has this handwritten entry: "appendectomy, coronary embolus?"

The drug would protect him from another pulmonary embolus, but in return he would have to avoid anything that could cause bleeding.

"Shouldn't there have been at least a change in those, if you attributed her seizure to another massive embolus?

Before his invention the success rate for removing an embolus, or blood clot, was forty to fifty percent.