thrombectomy
Surgery to remove a thrombus (blood clot) from a blood vessel.
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38 matchesthrombocyte
A tiny piece of a cell found in the blood that breaks off from a large cell found in the bone marrow.
Read definitionthrombocytopenia
Three mechanisms cover nearly all of it: too few made, too many destroyed, or too many held back in the spleen.
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A process that involves either a blood clot or bleeding, such as a heart attack or stroke.
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Thrombolysis uses medication to actively dissolve an existing blood clot, distinct from anticoagulation, which only prevents new clots from forming.
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The name splits into three parts, clot, vein and inflammation, and all three are present at once in the affected segment.
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A substance made by the body that helps make blood cells, especially platelets.
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Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot within a blood vessel or the heart, which can partially or completely block blood flow.
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A thrombus is a blood clot that forms inside a blood vessel or the heart and can partly or completely obstruct normal blood flow.
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A clot lodged in a leg vein matters less for the leg than for what happens if a piece of it breaks loose.
Read definitionessential thrombocythemia
Essential thrombocythemia is a bone marrow disorder that causes an elevated platelet count without a reactive cause such as infection or iron deficiency.
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Essential thrombocytosis describes a persistently elevated platelet count arising from a primary bone marrow disorder rather than a temporary reactive process.
Read definitionimmune thrombocytopenic purpura
The immune system destroying its own platelets, leaving blood that clots poorly and skin that marks at the lightest knock.
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The shorter name for a rare inherited triad, still turning up in older records long after the fuller version became standard.
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A nickname that misleads twice over: nothing is thinned, and the phrase covers two drug families that work in different ways.
Read definitionDVT
The leg symptoms are not the real danger; the danger is the fragment that breaks away and lodges in the lungs.
Read definitionheart attack
The muscle of the heart starves while the person is usually awake and talking, which is what separates it from a cardiac arrest.
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ITP is an autoimmune condition in which the body destroys its own platelets, lowering their blood count and increasing the risk of bruising and bleeding.
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Count and function are separate questions, so a bleeding problem can exist in someone whose platelet number looks entirely normal.
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TPO most often names thrombopoietin, the hormone driving platelet production, though the same abbreviation also names an unrelated thyroid enzyme.
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