Thrombolytic Therapy
Thrombolytic therapy is a treatment used to break up dangerous clots inside your blood vessels. In some cases the clot-dissolving medications are injected into a blood vessel. In other cases, your physician guides a long, thin tube, called a catheter, through your blood vessels to the area of the clot. Depending on the circumstances, the tip of the catheter may carry special attachments that break up clots. The catheter then delivers medications or mechanically breaks up the clot.
Thrombolytic therapy commonly is used to treat an ischemic stroke, which is another name for a clot in a blood vessel in your brain. It can also be used to treat clots in:
- Pulmonary embolism
- Deep vein thrombosis (DVT)
- Heart attack
- A blocked artery elsewhere in your body, such as in an arm or leg artery
- A bypass graft or dialysis catheter that has become blocked
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