Science news articles about 'blood clots in the lungs'

... researchers tested a new type of anti-clotting drug called Apixaban, which is an oral medication ... legs) or a pulmonary embolism (a blood clot in the lungs). Apixaban is now being studied in Phase III ...

Few trauma patients who develop potentially deadly blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism) ... legs and pelvis completely dislodge when they travel to the lungs; therefore, no evidence of deep venous ...

... of people who are in car accidents, people diagnosed with cancer, people who have blood clots in their lungs, and a vast number of other symptoms and conditions." Even so, in the last few years ...

... after childbirth, fits with high blood pressure (eclampsia) or blood clots in the lungs (pulmonary embolism). Dr Knight's research concludes that non-white women are one and half times more ...

... may be necessary to detect suspected life-threatening conditions such as bleeding in the brain, blood clots in the lungs or appendicitis. Since CT exposes the developing fetus to radiation, concerns ...

... catheter-directed thrombolysis for massive blood clots in the lungs. The results of the Stanford study, a meta ... inserted a catheter — a thin plastic tube — into the blood vessel. He then used real-time ...

... designed catheters to dissolve dangerous blood clots in the lungs—saves lives and should be considered a ... given a large-dose intravenous infusion of clot-busing medicine, a treatment called systemic ...