Avantec Vascular, a Nipro company, announced FDA 510(k) clearance of its thrombectomy system, which is intended for the treatme ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that develops within a deep vein, usually in the leg. It can cause pain, swelling, tenderness and red skin but sometimes there are no symptoms. Risk factors ...

Thrombectomy and embolectomy are procedures used to treat two different types of blood clots from blood vessels. A thrombectomy is surgery to remove a stationary blood clot from one of your arteries ...

When a blood clot develops in the leg, doctors refer to it as deep vein thrombosis (DVT). Deep veins carry blood back to the heart from the extremities. DVT may cause pain, warmth, and tenderness.

Everyone bleeds, and in most cases, blood clotting, or coagulation, is a good thing. “A blood clot (also known as a thrombus) is a jello-like material that your body creates to stop bleeding when you ...

The procedure is used for patients with either healed or active ulcers (CEAP classifications 5 or 6), caused by chronic venous insufficiency, in whom incompetent calf perforating veins are thought to ...