(1) Early postoperative problems following aorto-ilio-femoral thrombendarterectomy include occlusion, bleeding and emboli.
(2) Immunohistochemical staining of the emboli with monoclonal mouse anti-human neurofilament protein (Dako Corp., Carpinteria, California) confirmed the cerebral nature of the emboli.
(3) The CT scan findings in 50 patients with cardiogenic cerebral emboli are reviewed.
(4) This report describes three patients who developed emboli to the upper extremity at nine, 15, and 34 months following occlusion of their axillary femoral graft.
(5) The fibrinolytic inhibitor tranexamic acid was given orally to canines before, and for intervals after, pulmonary emboli were released from venous thrombi formed in vivo in femoral veins or the inferior vena cava.
(6) A hot spot in the lung emboli was visualized in two cases.
(7) One of these four patients survived, and two patients with thrombi but no emboli survived.
(8) Although commonly subacute in presentation, complications of endocarditis were frequent: arterial emboli in five patients, new electrocardiographic conduction system abnormalities in nine, congestive heart failure in eight, annular or myocardial abscesses in five, and disruption of valve leaflets in three.
(9) Of the detected DVT, 60 per cent were subclinical, and 7 per cent of the patients had minor pulmonary emboli, all of which were symptomless.
(10) All patients with emboli were in atrial fibrillation.
(11) To induce air emboli, the descending aorta of rats was chronically cannulated.
(12) At autopsy, white-gray emboli were found in several subsegmental pulmonary arteries.
(13) All three prophylactic methods reduce the incidence of pulmonary emboli to the same degree.
(14) Lymphatic tumor emboli were observed in quadrants in 18 or 2.0% of the cases.
(15) A relatively mild oral anticoagulant treatment (INR 2-3) is sufficient to prevent recurrences of venous thrombosis and pulmonary emboli.
(16) Two patients died of cardiovascular disease and 1 of failure of union of an ileal-ureterostomy in which cholesterol emboli were found in small submucosal arteries of the ileum.
(17) Tumour emboli were detected in 89 cases, and no respiratory symptoms were recorded in 39.
(18) Previously, we reported that the sensitivity of plasma DNA for patients with pulmonary emboli was 83 to 88 percent.
(19) Embolization of the bronchial arteries by hydrogel emboli also promotes regression of the inflammatory process in the lung and reduces the time needed for treatment.
(20) In five clinically unsuspected cases, CT first suggested the correct diagnosis of septic emboli.
Embolic
Definition:
(a.) Embolismic.
(a.) Pertaining to an embolism; produced by an embolism; as, an embolic abscess.
(a.) Pushing or growing in; -- said of a kind of invagination. See under Invagination.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) report the complications registered, in particular: lead's displacing 6.2%, run away 0.7%, marked hyperthermya 0.0%, haemorrage 0.4%, wound dehiscence 0.3%, asectic necrosis by decubitus 5%, septic necrosis 0.3%, perforation of the heart 0.2%, pulmonary embolism 0.1%.
(3) Decompression sickness and air embolism are medical emergencies.
(4) The clinical features were fever, anemia, and pulmonary embolism.
(5) The ability of autoregulate blood flow in the extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) circuit is critical to prevent cavitation and air embolism.
(6) A retrospective study of autopsy-verified fatal pulmonary embolism at a department of infectious diseases was carried out, covering a four-year period (1980-83).
(7) Right hepatic artery embolization with three coils was performed.
(8) Eight of 11 failures (73%) occurred in patients with a coagulopathy, whereas three patients (27%) in whom embolization was successful also had a coagulopathy.
(9) A specific central vein catheter for puncture of the brachiocephalic vein has been developed which is provided with a valve by which air-embolism and unwanted bleeding from the catheter are eliminated.
(10) Insertion of IVC filters by percutaneous approach was successfully performed in 6 patients with recurrent pulmonary embolism.
(11) In addition the following are recommended: intra-arterial embolization of the A. maxilleris interna by carotis external angiography and intranasal contact irradiation with cobalt, radium, or iridium.
(12) Excessive poppet wear has also been noted in the aortic position; poppet embolization has occurred on 2 occasions, and a third patient was found, at the time of reoperation for periprosthetic leak, to have opppet wear sufficient to permit embolization.
(13) Recently, continuous arterial infusion of 5-FU, MTX and other agents, arterial infusion of MMC and ADM over a given time course, plus microcapsulation of anticancer agents or improved chemotherapy for possible embolization, have been used to deal with embolisms.
(14) During the follow-up period 4 patients in group I had an embolic accident, as against none of the group II patients (p less than 0.01); 3 of these 4 patients had persistent uptake at control scintigraphy.
(15) If endovenous thromboses on permanent cardiac stimulation catheter are rather frequent, it is usual to note the absence of complications, especially embolic complications.
(16) Total necrosis of the tumor was found in 2 patients who underwent surgery 1 month after embolization.
(17) in 1937, the arterial spasm may have occurred at the time of cerebral embolism.
(18) Embolization was considered an adjuvant procedure; carried out to reduce the size of the malformation or eliminate the deep arterial supply to it prior to excision.
(19) A child should be tested for lupus anticoagulant or anticardiolipin antibody if venous or arterial occlusion occurs without a known predisposing cause, or if there is pulmonary embolism or symptoms or laboratory findings suggestive of a connective tissue disease.
(20) Immediately after embolization 141Ce labelled microspheres were administered into the left ventricle.