Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a significant health problem, leading to the hospital admission of over 250,000 Americans each year. Its most serious acute complication, namely pulmonary embolus, kills ...

We report three consecutive cases of mechanical and/or pharmacologic thrombolysis at our institution for the treatment of massive PE. The first patient was a 38-year-old gravid woman at 26 weeks' ...

Splenic vein thrombosis is a blockage in the splenic vein due to a blood clot. The splenic vein carries blood away from the spleen and parts of the stomach and pancreas. The spleen is an organ that ...

A pulmonary embolism (PE) occurs when a foreign substance blocks an artery in your lungs, stopping blood flow. It’s usually caused by a blood clot, but can sometimes be due to lipid, air, or tumor ...

Although almost 10% of middle-aged persons who have major operations afterward develop thrombosis* — a serious disease caused by clots which jam the blood vessels — they don’t need to. That fact was ...