Definitions

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  • noun surgery The surgical removal of a blood clot or thrombus from a blood vessel.

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  • noun surgical removal of a blood clot (thrombus) from a blood vessel

Etymologies

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From thrombus + -ectomy.

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  • One city that has done so is Coon Rapids, which has used the TIF pooling to help subsidize an expansion by Medrad Interventional/Possis Medical Inc., a provider of mechanical thrombectomy devices used to treat narrowed or blocked arteries and veins.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • Reverse Medical has CE Mark approval for the ReStore ™ Microcatheter for performing thrombectomy.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The Company also markets aspiration and thrombectomy catheters for the removal of thrombus and support catheters to facilitate crossing of coronary and peripheral arterial blockages.

    FinanzNachrichten.de: Aktuelle Nachrichten 2010

  • These devices combine the maceration abilities of mechanical thrombectomy devices with the dissolving effects of targeted thrombolysis.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • The thrombectomy device market, the largest segment covered in this report, consists of mechanical thrombectomy devices, aspiration catheters, embolectomy balloon catheters, and pharmacomechanical thrombectomy devices.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • In addition, the device will perform thrombectomy in a similar fashion as conventional devices being used today.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • The European market for clot management devices, which comprises the sale of thrombectomy devices, thrombolytic infusion catheters, neurovascular embolectomy devices, and inferior vena cava filters (IVCFs), will grow at a compound annual growth rate of nearly 8% through 2013.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • Pharmacomechanical thrombectomy, such as those offered by EKOS and Covidien (which purchased the technology in its acquisition of Bacchus Vascular in 2009), is an emerging market in Europe.

    Business Wire Travel News 2010

  • In rare instances, if it can’t be given in time or if the drug was unsuccessful, the blood clot must be surgically removed in a procedure called a thrombectomy.

    ‘I prayed for a bed’: the fight for my father in the US healthcare system Erum Salam 2024

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