Sentences with phrase «into smaller arteries»

A big increase of blood pressure could shove the dead worms farther into the smaller arteries.

We don't want increased blood pressure that pushes the chunks of dead worm tighter into the smaller arteries.

Smaller emboli may travel into smaller arteries and affect arterial blood flow to only one limb, or to other sites such as the brain, lungs, or kidneys.

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A small, flexible stainless - steel mesh tube is inserted into clogged arteries and then expanded, allowing the resumption of blood flow to the heart.

Until now, many scientists believed that blood flow within the brain was solely controlled by changes in the diameter of arterioles, blood vessels that branch out from arteries into smaller capillaries.

While arteries are the main supply routes into the brain, blood ultimately delivers its payload of oxygen to its final destination via a vast web of smaller capillaries — or microvessels — which permeate brain tissue.

After the blocked artery is opened, the blockage site often contains residual blood clots that may, when the stent is implanted, be displaced downstream into the small branches of the artery.

During PAE, an interventional radiologist makes a tiny incision in either the groin or wrist to insert a catheter (a small tube about the size of a strand of spaghetti) into an artery and, using image guidance, directs the catheter to the blood vessels on both sides of the enlarged prostate gland.

Normally, the lungs» blood vessels act as a filter to remove small clots before blood goes into arteries.

When I got there, the tests showed that I was having a heart attack, and the doctors performed an angioplasty — a procedure in which a small tube is inserted into the artery to help prop it open.

Then three cannulas were put — the one collecting the venous blood inside the right atrium (through the right atrium auricle), the one returning the oxygenated blood from the CPB machine into the ascending aorta and one small cardioplegique cannula into the aortic root over the coronary arteries.

Once the medicine is given the worms begin to die, meaning they break into small pieces which can occlude a pulmonary vessel or become lodged in the small arteries of the body.

In describing the procedure, Burkett says, «A veterinarian does a small cut down over a vessel, usually in the leg, and passes a catheter into the femoral artery.