About The Medical Condition Embolotherapy

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Embolotherapy

Embolotherapy Medical Condition Defined & Explained
Embolotherapy Medical Condition

What's The Definition Of The Medical Condition Embolotherapy?

A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage.

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