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If a patient develops a blood clot in the femorla vien and a portion of the blood clot breaks loose where is the blood flow likely to carry the embolus?

Veins carry blood to the heart, therfore in all likelyhood that clot is on it's way to the heart and will likely cause a myocardial infarction (heart attack).


What are clot busters?

If your blood flows out of your heart too slowly, a blood clot can form that completely blocks the artery.This is a kind of heart attack called a coronary thrombosis. A nonsurgical treatment that is successful in many cases is the use of "clot buster". Given to a patient through the veins, a clot buster is an enzyme that dissolves clots.


When a blood clot breaks free and circulates through the blood stream it is referred to as?

When a thrombus(clot) breaks free and travels through the bloodstream it is called an embolus.


What is an embolism and what is its connection to thrombosis?

An embolism is a blood clot that has traveled from where it formed to another part of the body, potentially causing a blockage in a blood vessel. Thrombosis is the formation of a blood clot within a blood vessel. An embolism is linked to thrombosis because it often originates from a thrombus that breaks free and travels through the bloodstream.


What is a heart blood clot called?

thrombosis


What is the definition of thrombokinesse?

an enzyme liberated from blood platelets that converts prothrombin into thrombin as blood starts to clot


A clot that breaks loose and floats in the blood is called a?

thromboembolism


Can you have a stroke without high blood pressure?

High blood pressure can lead to heart failure. If the heart isn't pumping properly than the chance of forming a clot increases and if this clot breaks free and makes it to the head than a stroke will occur


If a blood clot blocks and artery in your brain will result in a?

"A stroke" is the answer you're looking for.


What is the physiology cause of a heart attack?

blood clot lodging in a blood vessel supplying the heart


What keeps the blood from flowing into chamber of the heart?

A clot


What is the medical term meaning a clot that forms inside a blood vessel or the heart?

A thrombus is a clot that forms inside a vessel or the heart.