clot dissolution
Clearing blocked vessels
Clot dissolution is the breakdown of blood clots, whether occurring naturally through the body's fibrinolytic system or induced medically with clot-busting drugs.
The process is critical in treating strokes and heart attacks, where clots block blood flow: Rapid clot dissolution can limit brain damage after a stroke.
- plasminClot-dissolving blood enzyme
- anticoagulantSubstance preventing blood clots
- heparinSubstance preventing coagulation
- strokeSudden brain blood blockage
- heart attackBlocked blood to muscle
emergency room · medical emergency · embolism · bleeding · artery · blockage · blood thinner · enzyme · fibrin · platelet · hemorrhage · vein · blood flow · catheter · urgency · intervention · breakdown · liquefy
- Clot Treatmentthrombectomy, reperfusion, embolectomy
- Fibrinolysisplasmin, fibrin, D-dimer, thrombolytics
- blood clottingfibrin, thrombin, prothrombin, fibrinogen, platelet
clot dissolutioncoagulation
Liquid solidifying into mass
clot formation · blood clotting · thrombosis · clotting · hemostasis
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