0 a medical condition in which the flow of blood in the body is blocked by a clot (= half solid mass) of blood --
Analyses which take changes in contraceptive practices into account are preferable for examining acute unexpected illnesses such as venous thrombosis or stroke.
In major orthopedic surgery without preventive treatment, the risk for venous thrombosis is 40% to 70%.
The greatest excess over 'expected' mortality was for the group diagnosed as 'coronary thrombosis and other arteriosclerotic and degenerative heart diseases'.
Predisposition to spontaneous thrombosis of the pulmonary vasculature might be a real possibility.
Even if asymptomatic thrombosis is excluded however, the incidence of symptomatic thrombosis and thromboembolism was high, at 5%.
Once a panarteritis has developed, thrombosis and occlusion of the lumen is almost inevitable.
We did not use thrombosis promoting methods, such as soaking the device in topical thrombin, to encourage rapid complete occlusion.
Venous thrombosis can be prevented to some extent, mainly by treatment with anticoagulants (blood thinning agents) in conjunction with surgical intervention.
