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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Thrombosis and embolism are both blood clots that reduce or block blood flow inside your blood vessels. They’re two different yet serious conditions. Here’s a look at the differences and similarities.

Endovascular thrombectomy is a surgical procedure involving the removal of a clot from a blood vessel. Surgeons use a catheter device, and is intended to restore the normal blood flow. Embolism is a ...

Thrombosis is when a blood clot, or thrombus, forms in a blood vessel. An embolus is when a clot, fat, air bubble, or other feature travels through blood vessels, with a risk of lodging elsewhere.

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 ...