Venous thrombectomy using the InThrill Thrombectomy System: preliminary experiences
Kevin M McElroy, David S Shin, Matthew Abad-Santos, Eric J Monroe, Jeffrey Forris Beecham Chick · 2024
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Description
Kevin McElroy, David Shin, Matthew Abad-Santos, Eric Monroe, and Jeffrey Chick report early experience with a small catheter system that pulls clots out of veins. Larger devices exist, but this slimmer tool is built for smaller veins, and the team tried it across many clot locations.
Eleven patients with symptomatic vein blockages were treated, with clots in the belly, chest, neck, arm grafts, and legs. One to three passes per patient restored flow in ten of the eleven cases, with very little blood loss. The one failure involved an infected clot in the neck vein, where the team stopped rather than risk spreading the infection. The authors present the series as preliminary experience with the device.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Kevin M McElroy, David S Shin, Matthew Abad-Santos, Eric J Monroe, Jeffrey Forris Beecham Chick |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2024 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 10 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |