0 a medical condition in which the flow of blood in the body is blocked by a clot (= half solid mass) of blood
Thrombosis within dilated arteries may then lead to myocardial infarction.
It is not meaningful to conduct extensive investigations of patients with venous thrombosis to find possible underlying cancer.
The thrombosis necessitated valve replacement surgery with a porcine bioprosthesis at 22 weeks gestation.
Accumulating epidemiological evidence implicates thrombosis, as well as inflammation, as important factors in the development and causation of cerebral palsy.
The four major categories of cerebrovascular disease are atherosclerotic thrombosis, cerebral embolism, lacunae and intracranial hemorrhage.
This patient, therefore, had sudden death due to acute myocardial infarction, secondary to thrombosis of the coronary arterial aneurysms.
Histological sections were also searched for the presence of thrombosis, inflammatory infiltrate and storage diseases.
Venous thrombosis can be prevented to some extent, mainly by treatment with anticoagulants (blood thinning agents) in conjunction with surgical intervention.
