Often relegated to the second or third tier of treatment options, surgical management of patients with massive or high-risk submassive acute pulmonary embolism (PE)—either with embolectomy or ...

ONE hundred and ninety saddle emboli at the aortic bifurcation have been reported to date. To these we are adding 3 cases, making a total of 193. Two of our 3 patients were treated by embolectomy, and ...

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Routine use of the Fogarty embolectomy catheter after cardiac catheterization through a brachial arteriotomy in 25 patients was associated with a decline in major and minor complications from 28 to 4 ...