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Potentially life-saving device puts the squeeze – and the roll – on blood clots | Boosting success rate to 90%
When trying to remove life-threatening clots from blood vessels, current technologies are successful on only about half of the first attempts – if at all. A new surgical tool, however, is claimed to boost that figure to an astounding 90%.
Whichever the case, the fibrin often gets inadvertently broken up in the process, with some of the pieces proceeding to travel down the blood vessel. Prof. Jeremy Heit and colleagues at Stanford University, the catheter-delivered device takes the form of a rapidly rotating tube with a series of fins and slits at the tip. Jeremy Heit (left) and Renee Zhao demonstrate how to insert the milli-spinner using a life-sized model of the human circulatory system
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