Sentences with phrase «iliac arteries»

Vessels commonly blocked include arteries in the lungs, which cause rapid breathing or panting, rapid heart rate and high body temperature, and the iliac arteries (which supply the back legs), which causes a blockage called a saddle thrombus, with sudden paralysis of the rear limbs.

at the vertical arrow the abdominal aorta branches into the internal and external iliac arteries.

The split where the aorta becomes the left and right iliac arteries is called the saddle.

Any operative procedure increased the maternal mortality and morbidity index (defined as blood transfusion, hysterectomy, internal iliac artery ligation, or death or ICU admission) to a greater extent than spontaneous delivery...

Then, following their progress on a fluoroscope, the doctors guide the stent through the iliac artery to the site of the blockage, a distance of roughly three feet.

Recovered # 800,000 for a man who was left permanently disabled following a perforated common iliac artery