His device breaks up clots before the insertion of a stent, or a balloon angioplasty.
There's increasing evidence that left uncleared, clots can break off and block smaller arteries.
When I learned that the Clots had shuttered the display, my first thought was relief.
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Clots can form in the pouch and travel to the brain, causing a stroke.
At hospitals without these facilities, drugs that dissolve clots have very good outcomes in the short term.
According to David Grosser, a vascular surgeon in the Gold Coast, Australia, clots behave in many different ways.
Treatment sometimes requires hospitalization to dissolve the clot and try and reduce the risk of other clots developing.
This could lead to tissue damage in the artery walls, creating the potential for inflammation and the formation of life-threatening clots.
Although clots can develop anywhere in your body, with essential thrombocythemia, they occur most often in your brain, hands and feet.
An interesting aspect of the Carmat heart is a so-called biomembrane, which helps avoid clots by using tissue derived from animals.
They would thus stick like limpet mines to clots, before being burst by an ultrasonic beam to wash the clots away.
Pear-shaped women with big hips and thighs were at higher risk of dangerous clots, even if they had an "ideal" body weight.
In addition to strokes, clots cause most heart attacks and cancer deaths.
Suppress the prostoglandins in platelets, therefore, and you suppress the formation of the sort of clots that trigger heart attacks and strokes.
Sanofi could save money by chopping heads and still make use of experimental drugs for melanoma, kidney transplants and leg clots that Bristol is developing.
Off-label use of NovoSeven has previously raised concerns, partly because a drug that promotes formation of clots can increase risk of heart attacks and strokes.
Plavix, approved a decade later, and aspirin keep clots from forming.
Hints that Vioxx might cause heart attacks had existed for years, as basic research pointed to a mechanism by which the drug might cause more clots.
Patients with drug-coated stents get clots at the rate of 1 per 500 patients per year, to judge from outside analyses of the company's trial results.
Tests revealed the clot, and doctors used a vein from his groin area to widen the artery during July 13, a procedure to prevent future clots.
His hand was rummaging through the clots of yarn and the buttons and crumbs that lined the bottom of his pocket, searching for the encased bullet.
The company has been selling its technology in Europe and Australia since 2002 for clots resulting from peripheral artery disease and dialysis, although Rabiner won't disclose sales.
Lederman and his team of engineers spent 25 years dissolving and welding plastic until they had a totally seamless, continuous surface that minimizes the threat of clots.
The protein is thought to be a measure of inflammation in the arteries, and inflamed arteries are more likely to develop the clots that cause heart attacks and strokes.
William Boden, of the University of Buffalo, says he thinks the drug is most appealing in "frequent fliers"--patients whose arteries tend to get reclogged by clots even though they're on Plavix.
Paul Donovan, a spokesman for the company, emphasizes that although the company has found some evidence for clots, the drug-coated stents do not significantly increased the risk of heart attack or death.
In that same study, Crestor also prevented clots in the veins that can lead to blocked circulation in the legs or, if dislodged, can wind up in the lungs, potentially killing the patient.
One of the researchers involved, Prof Jeffrey Saver from the University of California, Los Angeles, told the BBC that these techniques would become more common, as they are more likely to clear clots than drugs.
Moreover, he says, the MEDAL study takes into account not only heart attacks, strokes and cardiovascular events, but also clots in the veins and lungs, which might not be the result of Cox-2 drugs at all.
Between 5% and 10% of patients with cardiovascular problems develop clots, estimates Donald Baim, an interventional cardiologist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, who is also a scientific adviser to OmniSonics, as well as a shareholder.
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