ONE hundred and ninety saddle emboli at the aortic bifurcation have been reported to date. To these we are adding 3 cases, making a total of 193. Two of our 3 patients were treated by embolectomy, and ...

Jupiter Endovascular today shared findings from the SPIRARE II pivotal trial evaluating its Vertex pulmonary embolectomy ...

Surgical Pulmonary Embolectomy Outcomes Not Affected by Thrombus Location Surgical pulmonary embolectomy for peripheral distribution of thrombus demonstrated positive outcomes in patients with either ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The FDA approved the SPIRARE II trial set to evaluate the use of Jupiter Endovascular’s Vertex Pulmonary ...

Often relegated to the second or third tier of treatment options, surgical management of patients with massive or high-risk submassive acute pulmonary embolism (PE)—either with embolectomy or ...

Tissue plasminogen activator can improve neurologic outcome after acute ischemic stroke (AIS); however, as an intravenous or catheter-based treatment strategy, it is not suitable for all AIS patients.

EMBOLIC occlusion of the main trunk of the superior mesenteric artery produces severe ischemia of the entire bowel between the terminal duodenum and mid-transverse colon. This entity must be ...

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 ...

Mechanical embolectomy performed with general instead of local anesthesia is associated with worse clinical outcomes and poorer survival, according to an article published online March 25, 2014, ahead ...

Dyspnea and hypotension developed in a 35-year-old woman about 24 hours after an apparently uncomplicated cesarean delivery at term. The patient was acutely distressed and fully conscious, with a ...

Applied Medical is recalling 19,400 of their Python embolectomy catheters, Bard embolectomy catheters, and OTW Latis cleaning catheters because the catheter tip could detach during use. If this ...