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embolectomy

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embolectomy [‚em·bə′lek·tə·mē]
(medicine)
Surgical removal of an embolus.


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At noon, Santos was transferred to the ER at Rio Grande Regional Hospital, where she underwent an embolectomy to remove an embolism that had developed in her right leg.
A 75-year female patient with LA myxoma was initially presented to emergency room with clinical complaints resulting from acute femoral artery emboli, and following femoral embolectomy her essential pathology was determined postoperatively (Table 1).
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