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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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.