thrombectomy
Americannoun
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thrombectomies
plural
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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
The surgeon, in another location, could then hold and move their own wires, and the robot then carries out exactly the same movements in real time on the patient to carry out the thrombectomy.
From BBC ● Nov. 10, 2025
"Mechanical thrombectomy has allowed people that otherwise would have died or become significantly disabled be completely restored, as if their stroke never happened," said Bernstock.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2024
It more than doubled its reimbursement rate for each thrombectomy performed in the country’s hospitals, to $7,500, an important boost to the procedure’s prospects there.
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
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
But so far, only about 240,000 thrombectomies are being performed around the world each year.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2023
But now, he said, hospital systems will need to become better organized so that smaller ones test stroke victims quickly and send them to larger centers where thrombectomies can save more brain tissue.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 24, 2018
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