Embolectomy

Embolectomy (also: thrombectomy , thrombendarterectomy ) is the medical term for the removal of an embolus or thrombus (blood clot). The removal is done as an open operation or with a balloon catheter . For this purpose, the balloon catheter is inserted into the closed vessel to behind the embolus, then the balloon catheter is inflated. The embolus can then be withdrawn by slowly pulling the catheter.

The first surgical operation methods for embolectomy in pulmonary embolism were mainly developed by Friedrich Trendelenburg and Martin Kirschner in the first quarter of the 20th century.

Web links

• Removal of blood clots (embolism) in the arteries
• Nazmi Zangana: The operative development of pulmonary embolectomy and its corresponding results: single-center examination of the years 1959-1998

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernst Kern : Seeing - Thinking - Acting of a surgeon in the 20th century. Ecomed, Landsberg am Lech 2000. ISBN 3-609-20149-5 , p. 11 f.

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