Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a significant health problem, leading to the hospital admission of over 250,000 Americans each year. Its most serious acute complication, namely pulmonary embolus, kills ...

A thrombectomy is a surgical procedure to remove a thrombus, or blood clot, in an artery. A doctor may use it to treat some strokes. The procedure helps restore blood flow to the brain. Other names ...

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 ...

Just as catheter angiography in the assessment of peripheral vascular disease has largely been replaced by CT or MRI angiography, so too catheter venography has been replaced by ultrasound and or CT ...