Thrombectomy and embolectomy are procedures used to treat two different types of blood clots from blood vessels. A thrombectomy is surgery to remove a stationary blood clot from one of your arteries ...

The treatment of a subdural hematoma received a major boost with three new randomized controlled trials all showing large and significant benefits of a new embolization process done as an endovascular ...

A new American Heart Association scientific statement suggests surgery be considered for more people with high-risk pulmonary embolism (PE). The statement, published today in the American Heart ...

The American Heart Association has issued a new scientific statement on pulmonary embolism (PE), a sometimes fatal condition in which a blood clot travels to the lungs. The American Heart Association ...

Current guidelines recommend 5 weeks of postoperative prophylactic anticoagulation, but a new study suggests the duration of this treatment ought to be extended. Current guidelines recommend 5 weeks ...

HOUSTON -- Preoperative embolization of meningioma was associated with improved relapse-free survival (RFS) in a retrospective propensity-matched review. Surgery without embolization was associated ...

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

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 61-year-old previously fit and well man underwent an elective left endoscopic plantar fascia release procedure under general anaesthetic, performed privately by an orthopaedic surgeon, Mr R.