Sentence examples for obstruct blood flow from inspiring English sources

If dealt with early, the effects of the arterial blockage can often be overcome by removing a nonessential superficial vein from the leg, reversing it so that the valves will not obstruct blood flow, and then joining this graft to the affected artery above and below the block thus bypassing the obstruction.

The condition, "intermittent claudication," is a symptom of peripheral arterial disease that usually occurs in the legs, as fatty deposits obstruct blood flow during even mild exercise.

While laparotomy with midline incision is unlikely to directly damage the epigastric artery, this procedure is highly invasive, and the operator must be careful not to compress the epigastric artery with the wound retractor as this has been reported to obstruct blood flow [12].

Interestingly, despite increases in sinusoidal adhesion which tend to obstruct blood flow, septic mice treated with Seplyte H + 5% albumin also had the greatest percentage of flowing sinusoids when compared to either normal saline or Seplyte L with albumin (Fig. 3d).

Disseminated intravascular coagulation, the excessive activation of blood clotting, may obstruct blood flow to organs and paradoxically increase the bleeding risk.

Direct evidence of cytoadherence comes from histological examinations of the microcirculation in blood vessels from cerebral malaria patients in which large amount of late stage parasitized cells accumulate and sequentially perturb or fully obstruct blood flow [7].

It involved injecting alcohol into a blood vessel to strangle the blood supply to the muscular part of the heart obstructing blood flow.

It obstructs blood flow, electrolytes, and neuropeptic functions, thereby inducing abnormal homeostasis, hypo or hypertonic metabolism, and painful mood swings.

Acute DVT is characterized by pain and swelling and is usually occlusive, which means that it obstructs blood flow, whereas non-occlusive DVT is less symptomatic.

One must be extremely careful around jugular veins; although they can be sites for IV medications and nutrition, complications such as thrombosis (formation of a blood clot that obstructs blood flow) can be life threatening.

These were tightened just enough to hold the thermode in place without obstructing blood flow.