Sentences with phrase «prevent normal blood flow»

These clots can sometimes lodge in a large blood vessel — the aorta — where they can prevent normal blood flow to the hind legs.

Many times, these clots can lodge in a large blood vessel called the aorta where they can prevent normal blood flow to the hind legs.

A disease called peripheral artery disease, or PAD, causes blockages in your lower limbs preventing normal blood flow.

This prevents the normal blood flow back to the heart and can lead to a reduction in blood pressure and the eventual occurrence of hypovolemic shock.

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If we are able to prevent pericytes from dying, it should help restore blood flow in the brain to normal and prevent the ongoing slow damage we see after a stroke which causes so much neurological disability in our patients.»

We are able to perform an emergency surgery in which we flip the stomach back to it's normal position to regain blood flow to the tissue, and tack it onto the body wall to hopefully prevent it from twisting again in the future.

Within a «normal» heart, the atria are separated by the interatrial septum which acts as a dividing wall between the two atrial chambers, thus preventing blood to flow back and forth.