The amount of helium balloons on sale tend to swell around festivities, including Halloween. And with this, young people are often tempted to open them and suck the helium out. But a new case report ...

An arterial embolism is a blood clot that has travelled through your arteries and become stuck. This can block or restrict blood flow. Clots generally affect the arms, legs, or feet. An embolism is ...

Decompression sickness, in which bubbles formed from dissolved gas (usually nitrogen) cause tissue and vascular injury after a reduction in environmental pressure, may occur in diving, aviation, and ...

The majority of peripheral arterial embolizations have an underlying cardiac cause. Cranley found the heart to be the source of emboli in 90% of cases, proximal arterial disease in 1%, and rare causes ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Limb Arterial Embolism' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

The Gainesville man who died in a cave diving accident last weekend at Weeki Wachee Springs State Park suffered an air embolism, an autopsy found. Marson Kay, 29, died Saturday after getting trapped ...

The introduction of pulmonary scanning with radioactive particles has aided in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and provided a means for more precise documentation of the natural history of the ...

Both are conditions affecting the flow of blood through blood vessels. But thrombosis develops because of a blood clot, and embolism results from an object or bodily substance obstructing blood flow.

The purpose of this study was to present 11 patients operated on owing to rare forms of peripheral arterial embolism at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Serbian Clinical Center over a ...