Treating acute heart attack with thrombus aspiration (TA) results in improved 1-year clinical outcomes compared with the conventional treatment of percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) alone. These ...

Interv Cardiol. 2011;3(6):705-712. Altogether, the usefulness and merit of the contemporary thrombus grading classifications are widely accepted (Box 4). However, certain limitations should be ...

When a clot, known as an embolus, travels through the blood and causes an obstruction, healthcare professionals refer to this as an “embolism.” A cardiac source of embolism is the obstruction of a ...

Background A 53-year-old man presented to hospital 2 hours after the abrupt onset of left upper abdominal pain. He was treated with analgesics and discharged after 4 hours of observation, but ...

What is a blood clot? Blood clots normally form after an injury to protect your body from losing too much blood, but they can ...

Researchers examined autopsy tissue samples of hearts from patients who died early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Frequent and extensive blood clots (thromboses) within heart vessels were found as ...

Treatment targeting immune-regulating neutrophil activation may reduce pathological thrombosis in COVID-19 patients, researchers report. Researchers examined autopsy tissue samples of hearts from ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a preventable but serious medical condition where blood clots form in your veins. Most often, these clots are in your lower leg, thigh, or pelvis. They can sometimes ...

A stent thrombosis is a blood clot that forms within a coronary stent. It can be a complication of stent placement to open a narrowed artery. A coronary stent is a mesh tube that opens a narrowed or ...