emboli

Far more common are emboli strokes from afib, small vessel atherosclerosis, for example.

With that goes along CHF and pulmonary emboli and other CVA incidents.

When you go on bypass(needed if the heart is stopped to replace a valve) air emboli (very small air bubbles) go into the brain and can get lodged in capillaries cutting of blood flow.

Increased incidence of IV drug abuse, which sometimes leads to endocarditis, leading to septic emboli (I see this very often).

When the thrombotic disease progresses, you start to see a more macro version: think strokes and pulmonary emboli in patients who are otherwise low risk at baseline.

>left a funny air bubble >apparently it had some problems Air emboli?

And lastly to get back and extremity pain with renal failure after an angio sounds like the catheter would have needed to disrupt a plaque in the descending aorta somewhere and then shower the kidneys and lower extremities with emboli.

During this ultimate molting process he obtained his sexual organs, which are bulbs (emboli, plural; embolus, singular) on the end of his pedipalps that are used to transfer sperm from his sperm web to the female.

Yes, it is a respiratory disease, but what we've learned in the last year is that the worst respiratory effects from this disease aren't from it infecting pneumocytes (that's how it spreads) but from the emboli that it creates which then block the vasculature of the lungs.

Quote: "Cavitation detaches cancer cells/emboli from the primary site and thereby releases them into the circulation, leading to metastasis"