Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a medical emergency due to the high risk of permanent vision loss. It occurs most often in people of northern European ancestry, with a global prevalence of approximately ...

Septic emboli are infected blood clots. They break free and travel through the bloodstream, where they get lodged and block a blood vessel. Septic means having a systemic illness caused by an ...

The purpose of this study was to present 11 patients operated on owing to rare forms of peripheral arterial embolism at the Institute for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Serbian Clinical Center over a ...

SUDDEN occlusion of the aortic bifurcation by embolic clot released from the heart constitutes one of the rare but dramatically important emergency situations seen in medical practice. If such a clot ...

Between 1983 and 2003, 877 embolectomies of peripheral arteries were performed at our institution. Among them there were 11 patients (1.26%) with some unusual causes of arterial embolization (8 males ...