Experiences with

Thrombectomy

IV TNK recommended: No Mechanical thrombectomy candidate: unable to assess candidacy, however likely not a candidate even if LVO was identified given large right sided mass concerning for tumor with midline shift and herniation.

I'm fortunate to live near a stroke specialist hospital in London so was fairly quickly admitted for a CT scan and subsequent thrombectomy.

hi my dad is an 62 years old diabetic patient he had an left middle cerebral artery stroke He was normal at the beginning and had TPA and everything was absolutely normal he was about to have mechanical thrombectomy but then he felt dizzy and the doctors recommended a craniotomy decompression

Hi, Got out of the hospital after having a thrombectomy for superior vena cava syndrome. I had a dvt that completely blocked off my blood flow from my head to my heart. Scary! Scarier because I was suffering with a swollen head for 6 months before any dr took me seriously.

I’m November I had a major stroke but was lucky enough to have a thrombectomy which saved me. In December I was admitted to hospital with a fever and found to have endocarditis. They suspect I had it for months.

A new approach, mechanical thrombectomy, is now the treatment of choice for LVOs. “It involves making a small incision in the groin, then a catheter is threaded all the way to the brain to engage the clots and remove them,” Golan explains. “It’s like science fiction.

The tumor was very large (approximately 18 cm) and had grown into the inferior vena cava so they also performed an IVC thrombectomy and removed my adrenal gland and a section of the neighboring lymph node. Fortunately no cancer was present when those tissues were tested.

My stroke was luckily/thankfully mitigated by way of an emergency intervention at the hospital -- an endovascular thrombectomy was performed. So that's my story and that is where things stand at the moment.

Had a thrombectomy with stent placement. My cardiologist told my husband if they hadn't already been in my heart at that exact time that it happened I would have never survived. What has made me angry is I started having chest pain and not being able to breathe, called 911 within 5-10 minutes.

Since i had a DVT and a thrombectomy in my left side, my left foot becomes extremely cold and tingly, however my right foot goes horribly boiling and i don't know why!