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This less-invasive surgery allows providers to close a finger-like appendage in the left atrium that is prone to producing blood clots, which can lead to embolic strokes.
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Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
Robertson faced a series of health challenges in recent years — including an embolic stroke in 2018 — that put his health in decline, according to an announcement by his legacy media empire, the Christian Broadcasting Network.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
TIAs can be thrombotic or embolic, arising from clots formed in a brain artery diseased with atherosclerotic plaque, or from clots traveling to the brain from the heart or arteries upstream.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
Using a micro-catheter, Dr. Monica Pearl and her team go through the femoral artery in the thigh up to the blood vessels in the brain, and carefully put liquid embolic agents, a type of surgical glue, to block blood flow and force the tissue to die.
—Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Doctors would later diagnose him with an embolic stroke, and further tests revealed a mass near the top of his chest.
—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
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Rachel Murphy, Verywell Health, 4 Jan. 2024
Robertson faced a series of health challenges in recent years — including an embolic stroke in 2018 — that put his health in decline, according to an announcement by his legacy media empire, the Christian Broadcasting Network.
—Kyler Alvord, Peoplemag, 8 June 2023
TIAs can be thrombotic or embolic, arising from clots formed in a brain artery diseased with atherosclerotic plaque, or from clots traveling to the brain from the heart or arteries upstream.
—Tony Dajer, Discover Magazine, 1 Oct. 2015
Using a micro-catheter, Dr. Monica Pearl and her team go through the femoral artery in the thigh up to the blood vessels in the brain, and carefully put liquid embolic agents, a type of surgical glue, to block blood flow and force the tissue to die.
—Julie Mazziotta, PEOPLE.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Doctors would later diagnose him with an embolic stroke, and further tests revealed a mass near the top of his chest.
—Jacob Feldman, SI.com, 15 Aug. 2019
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embolic
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em·bol·ic
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