Giving the clot-busting medication alteplase at the site of a blocked brain artery after blood clot removal may increase the ...

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 15 million people suffer a stroke every year worldwide. Ischemic strokes caused by blood clots blocking brain arteries account for about 87 percent ...

Thomas Fogarty, who has died aged 91, invented the embolectomy catheter, commonly known as the balloon catheter, a device ...

Even after a blood clot is removed from a large artery in the brain via a minimally invasive procedure to treat a clot-caused ...

A major international analysis of 2,313 patients, median age 71, found that giving an IV clot-busting drug before mechanical clot removal modestly increases brain-bleeding risk compared with ...

Patients who have lower extremity proximal deep vein thrombosis (LE-DVT), or a blood clot in their leg, are increasingly undergoing minimally invasive catheter-based blood clot removal - also referred ...

Phillies right-handed pitcher Zack Wheeler was diagnosed with venous thoracic outlet syndrome this week. The diagnosis came after a follow-up evaluation and second opinions following a blood clot ...

PHILADELPHIA -- Phillies ace Zack Wheeler had surgery Monday to remove a blood clot in his upper right arm, and the team says a timeline for his recovery remains unknown. Manager Rob Thomson ...