Disease relevance of Embolectomy

• According to our strategy, 98 patients met the diagnostic criteria of pulmonary embolism: 75 patients (all shock index <1) were treated with heparin alone, 16 (seven had a shock index > or =1) with thrombolysis, four (all shock index > or =1) with catheter fragmentation, and three (all shock index > or =1) with surgical embolectomy [1].
• For those patients who survive embolectomy, prognosis is most closely correlated with the TNM staging of the primary lung tumor ignoring the tumor embolus [2].
• Adequate heparin therapy significantly improved results after embolectomy, but had no such effect after surgical treatment of thrombosis [3].
• PATIENTS/METHODS: Serial sections of thrombi obtained during valve replacement surgery or embolectomy from 22 patients with atrial fibrillation were stained with antibodies against fibrin, integrin beta3, or tissue factor and analyzed with NIH-image [4].
• The patient underwent brachial artery embolectomy, proximal and distal aneurysm ligation, and placement of a carotid to axillary artery polytef bypass graft [5].

High impact information on Embolectomy

• Pulmonary embolectomy after intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase [6].
• Pulmonary embolectomy was done in 0.2% of cases of PE; interruption of the vena cava was done in 4.4% of cases of PE and in 2% of cases of DVT [7].
• The authors conclude that the keys to successful treatment of ASE include high dose heparin which is maintained through the perioperative period, embolectomy without preoperative angiography, and maintenance of long-term oral anticoagulation [8].
• Bilateral superficial femoral arteries were deendothelialized with a 2F arterial embolectomy catheter. rTM (145 microg/kg; 2.0 microg/mL in circulation) or Tris-hydrochloride vehicle control was administered intravenously during the procedure, then either discontinued (group A) or administered twice daily for an additional 48 hours (group B) [9].
• Intra-arterial lignocaine in embolectomy [10].

Biological context of Embolectomy

• Different treatment strategies, such as i.v. and i.a. fibrinolysis, adjunctive application of GP IIb/IIIa inhibitors, PTA/stenting and mechanical embolectomy are addressed in detail [11].

Anatomical context of Embolectomy

• The thoracic aortas from two rabbits that had survived a single embolectomy catheter lesion for 2 years were studied by transmission electron microscopy after vital staining with Evans blue [12].
• Protective effects of methyl prednisolone and dimethyl sulfoxide in experimental middle cerebral artery embolectomy [13].
• Myoglobin concentrations in serum and urine were measured in eight patients who underwent successful arterial embolectomy in the femoral or iliac arteries [14].
• Low-dose (5 to 10 mg) local tissue-type plasminogen activator (t-PA) administration directly into the superior mesenteric artery was an additional procedure with the embolectomy in all patients [15].
• A solution of capsaicin was infused into the affected ureter through an embolectomy catheter, under anaesthesia [16].

Associations of Embolectomy with chemical compounds

• Four weeks after embolectomy, the vessels were perfusion-fixed in situ with 2% glutaraldehyde and were excised [17].
• Artificial secretions were removed by suction (using 12- or 18-French suction catheters) or by means of a balloon-tipped catheter (6-French Fogarty arterial embolectomy catheter) in 20 experiments performed on five dogs anesthetized with halothane [18].
• The functional recovery of gas exchange would be signaled by an increase in pulmonary CO2 elimination and decrease in CO2 retention; such data could guide the course of operative embolectomy [19].
• RESULTS: No significant differences were noted in the contractile response to NE after embolectomy [20].
• We report two patients in whom subcutaneous lepirudin was used for long term anticoagulation after heart transplant or surgical pulmonary embolectomy because treatment with LMWH or warfarin was contraindicated, unsuccessful, or impractical [21].

Gene context of Embolectomy

• Combined pulmonary tumour embolectomy and extended right hepatectomy with inferior vena cava resection for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma [22].
• After systemic anticoagulation, cardiac embolectomy and closure of the atrial septal defect were considered [23].
• Immunohistochemical study of embolectomy material disclosed strong reactivity of the tumor cells for calretinin [24].
• Successful recanalization with mechanical embolectomy only was achieved in 12 (43%) patients, and with additional intra-arterial tissue plasminogen activator in 18 (64%) patients [25].
• This was managed by the removal of vegetations, resection of the septal leaflet of the tricuspid valve, closure of the ventricular septal defect, and pulmonary embolectomy [26].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Embolectomy

• However, when 3 days of intravenous heparin infusion and 30 hours of membrane oxygenator support failed to improve the pulmonary pathology, pulmonary embolectomy was performed [27].
• Surgical procedures (embolectomy and vena cava filter) were carried out when necessary [28].
• Low mortality and amputation rates can be achieved with early embolectomy and routine use of heparin [29].
• Repair in arterial tissue. Electron microscopy of Evans blue vital stained embolectomy catheter lesion of the rabbit thoracic aorta [30].
• Fogarty catheter embolectomy was performed in all patients followed by rapid positive-pressure lavage of the vascular tree with 4-61 Ringer's lactate solution containing mannitol in an attempt to remove free radicals [31].

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