It was with these considerations in mind that we undertook to examine our own experience with arterial emboli to determine what place, if any, the operation of embolectomy should play in the therapy ...

Recently Sir Thomas Lewis, eminent London heart specialist, made a special study of how an arm or leg dies when an embolus (floating clot) plugs a main artery which feeds blood to that limb. Competent ...

A 42-year-old man of Pakistani origin presented with pain and pallor of sudden onset in his left upper limb. His past history included hypertension, hypercholesterolemia, sleep apnea, diabetes ...

Embolization continues to be one of the most dynamic and rapidly evolving areas in endovascular care, with expanding indications, novel devices, a ...

A pulmonary embolism occurs when a blood clot blocks one of the arteries in the lungs. A pulmonary embolism can happen after surgery if a blood clot forms inside one of the veins in the body and ...

Leslie Stoll developed a blood clot that led to a pulmonary embolism after she broke her leg in 2014. The embolism was treated, but another occurred when Stoll had surgery on her foot years later.