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How is an extraction of arterial emboli accomplished?
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Surgery or angiogram: Most often this is done with a relatively small cut over ther involved artery and embolectomy, similar to rotorooter for plumbing. Sometimes this is treated with catheters and devices to breakup and suction out or dissolve the clot.
Answered 10/1/2015
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