embolectomy

/ ˌɛmbəˈlɛktəmɪ /

noun

1. the surgical removal of an embolus that is blocking a blood vessel

Example Sentences

When one surgeon at a field hospital asked for arterial embolectomy catheters, for treating clogs in arteries, Ms. Abiyeva found another volunteer in St. Petersburg to make the 700-mile trip to deliver 10 of them immediately.

From New York Times

In an earlier study, the same researchers had found that hospitals generally lose money on Medicare reimbursements for another stroke treatment -- endovascular embolectomy, in which doctors go in and extract the blood clot causing the stroke.

From Reuters

Dr. deTakats: "Embolectomy is futile after 48 hours or even before that if there is a manifest gangrene, or on patients in whom the underlying disease is apt to be fatal shortly, as in septic endocarditis or terminal cardiac decompensation."

From Time Magazine Archive

If embolectomy is performed within ten hours after the clot cuts off circulation in a limb, Dr. deTakats finds that 40% of the cases will recover the use of the member.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Murray: "There are few operations in surgery so eminently satisfactory in selected cases or attended by such potentiality for good as embolectomy for arterial embolus."

From Time Magazine Archive