(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.
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.