A fatty, pimplelike lesion in a coronary artery burst, and a blood clot formed that closed the vessel and cut off circulation to part of the heart muscle.
A stroke is caused when the brain does not get enough blood as a result of a blood vessel being cut off or losing its connection to the brain as the result of a blocked artery.
CT-angiography depicts arterial thrombosis as abrupt vessel cut-off, and renal infarction (Fig. 8) as a peripheral wedge-shaped non-enhancing area in the renal parenchyma, with a rim of enhancement at the periphery of the cortex (rim sign) due to preserved capsular blood flow [22, 24].
Narrowing of the vessel lumen, abrupt vessel cut-off, and focal irregular indentation are features of vascular invasion on MRA [ 55].
If untreated, the infected cells can block blood vessels and fatally cut off blood supply to vital organs.
The in-vessel transfer machine that crashed into the reactor's inner vessel last August had cut off access to the plutonium and uranium fuel rods and left the reactor in an uncertain state.
According to legal documents filed by the family's malpractice lawyer, Steven Laird of Fort Worth, damage to blood vessels during the surgery cut off the blood supply to the liver, and doctors, unable to repair the damage, had to remove Jeanella's liver.
Swiftsure and Emerald managed to cut off the vessel from Alexandria harbour and drive it ashore near the town of Marabou.
These clots can travel up the blood vessel to the brain and cut off the blood supply to a part of the brain.
All the small vessel branches of femoral artery and femoral vein were ligatured and cut off without damaging the vessel wall.
Having finally found Villaret, on 28 May Howe attacked, using a flying squadron of his fastest ships to cut off its rearmost vessel Révolutionnaire.
