(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.
Embolus
Definition:
(n.) Something inserted, as a wedge; the piston or sucker of a pump or syringe.
(n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism.
Example Sentences:
(1) Local embolism, vertebral distal-stump embolism, the dynamics of hemorrhagic infarction and embolus-in-transit are briefly described.
(2) Paradoxical embolus to the right coronary artery was demonstrated premorbidly and at autopsy.
(3) The case of a patient with a hepatic vein bullet embolus complicating a left ventricular gunshot injury is described.
(4) It was concluded that the mixture is much more satisfactory than the conventional cyanoacrylates as an embolus material in vitro.
(5) There was a 12.6% incidence of pulmonary embolism, but only 1.9% of all patients developed a symptomatic pulmonary embolus.
(6) The common lung or pulmonary perfusion scan using macroaggregates of albumin or microspheres radiolabeled also gives information as to the presence of thrombosis of embolus within the pulmonary arteries, by showing the effect upon the perfusion pattern.
(7) A deep venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolus was found in 1.7% and was no less common in the 25% of the patients who received pharmacologic anticoagulation.
(8) If the source of the embolus can be located, medical or surgical therapy may be able to prevent the occurrence of further strokes.
(9) The total incidence of postoperative pulmonary embolus was 3.2%, with two-thirds asymptomatic and one-third symptomatic pulmonary emboli.
(10) A missile embolus, an extremely rare lesion, presents an unusual and challenging problem for the clinician.
(11) Failure to define a source of embolus kept them in the category of IUC.
(12) Anticoagulants have not been administered postoperatively, and one patient has had a systemic embolus.
(13) Low AA and low H-AA (Pattern D) developed in sera of eight patients with thrombophlebitis and seven patients with pulmonary embolus.
(14) Many patients who suffer a massive pulmonary embolus die despite emergent therapy.
(15) While traditional causes of occlusion (saddle embolus and thrombosis) are the most frequent, vasculitis and hypercoagulable states have recently been suggested as etiologies.
(16) In 9 cases, it was an air embolus, in 4 others an atheromatous embolus.
(17) The thrombolytic and pharmacokinetic properties of staphylokinase were compared with those of streptokinase in hamsters with a pulmonary embolus produced from human plasma or from hamster plasma, and in rabbits with a jugular vein blood clot produced from rabbit blood.
(18) From this an embolus may detach to the right hemisphere of the brain resulting in left sided hemiplegia.
(19) The mortality with modern therapy was 12%, and the major complication was cerebral embolus.
(20) In Group A the detection of air embolus varied from 6% using an oesophageal stethoscope to 58% by the Doppler method.