thrombectomy
Americannoun
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thrombectomies
plural
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of thrombectomy
Probably earlier than 1960–65; thromb(us) + -ectomy
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Last month, Boston Scientific agreed to a $15 billion deal to acquire thrombectomy company Penumbra in a bid to enter new, fast-growing segments within the vascular space.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 4, 2026
The addition of Penumbra, which makes mechanical thrombectomy products for vascular procedures, expands Boston Scientific’s vascular medicine business.
From Barron's ● Jan. 15, 2026
Only 212 - or 2.2% of all patients - received a thrombectomy, while 1,045 people received medication to burst the clots.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
LVO strokes are major medical emergencies and require the swift treatment with mechanical thrombectomy, a surgical procedure that retrieves the blockage.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
Instead, he received a recently developed treatment, one established in part by the neurology team at Foothills: what’s called an endovascular thrombectomy, or EVT.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Penumbra’s portfolio focuses largely on devices used in mechanical thrombectomies, a minimally invasive procedure to remove blood clots, and for neurovascular conditions.
From MarketWatch ● Jan. 15, 2026
While there have been remote thrombectomies carried out before on a silicon model, a 3D printed replica and on an animal, this is thought to have been the first procedure on a human body.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
But so far, only about 240,000 thrombectomies are being performed around the world each year.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
It was 2009, and Goyal, a neuroradiologist who works at Foothills and the adjoining University of Calgary, had already been trying thrombectomies for about half a decade.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
Fourteen percent of the people who had thrombectomies died, compared with 26 percent in the medical therapy group.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2018
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