What is a blood clot? Blood clots normally form after an injury to protect your body from losing too much blood, but they can ...

Giving the anti-clotting drug rivaroxaban to patients for 12 weeks instead of the usual six after a blood clot in the lower leg reduces the risk of further clots developing up to two years after ...

Penumbra reported positive data for a trial of its treatment for pulmonary embolism. The use of computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy resulted in improvements in thrombus burden reduction, heart rate, ...

Philadelphia, PA The low molecular weight heparin, enoxaparin, given subcutaneously once or twice daily is as effective and safe as dose-adjusted, continuously infused unfractionated heparin in the ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE), a type of blood clot in the lungs, sends more than half a million people to U.S. hospitals each year ...

The disadvantages of dabigatran include a higher cost compared with warfarin, the need for twice-daily dosing, and a slightly increased risk for gastrointestinal bleeding (6.1% with dabigatran vs 4% ...

The study found that the use of the company’s computer-assisted vacuum thrombectomy (CAVT) system, a form of mechanical ...

Pulmonary embolism (PE), a type of blood clot in the lungs, sends more than half a million people to U.S. hospitals each year ...

Deep vein thrombosis (DVT) is a blood clot that forms inside a vein deep in the body, whereas superficial thrombophlebitis (STP) is inflammation of the veins just below the skin’s surface. STP can ...

Deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, is a disorder that kills an estimated 60,000 to 10,000 Americans each year. Dr. Steven Abramowitz, chairman of vascular surgery for MedStar Health, told WTOP that until ...

Penumbra, Inc. (NYSE: PEN) announced the results of the landmark STORM-PE randomized controlled trial (RCT), which found that ...

The first clinical use of heparin was for chemoprophylaxis in surgical patients. In 1937, Murray and Crafoord published data evaluating surgical patients who received prophylaxis for DVT. 14 Despite ...