The use of clot-dissolving drugs to restore blood flow through an occluded artery.
Arterial thrombolysis
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Lysis of acute ischemic strokes
Stroke may be due acute rupture or occlusion of a blood vessel supplying an area of the brain. The former is hemorrhagic stroke, the latter nonhemorrhagic stroke. Nonhemorrhagic stroke may be treated by removal of the occluding blood clot by dissolving it (thrombolysis), extracting it (mechanical disruption) or by both.
Vertebroplasty
The injection of bone cement (methylmethacrylate) into a fractured vertebra to relieve pain and discomfort. In kyphoplasty, before the deposition of bone cement in the vertebra, effort is made to restore some of its lost height by inserting and inflating a balloon in its body.
All other extra-cranial embolizations including nasopharyngeal embolization for refractory epistaxis
Embolization may be applied to diseases inside or outside the skull to arrest growth of an abnormality or control bleeding. Embolization of diseases in parts of the body other than the brain is termed extracranial. Some examples of such treatment include bronchial artery embolization for hemoptysis; mesenteric artery embolization for gastrointestinal hemorrhage; splenic or internal iliac artery embolization for traumatic splenic and pelvic injuries, respectively; embolization of the internal maxillary artery for epistaxis; embolization of various benign or malignant tumors to control their growth or destroy them.
Uterine Fibroid Embolization
The deliberate injection of a biocompatible foreign agent into the arteries supplying the uterus to treat symptomatic uterine fibroids or for uncontrollable uterine blood loss due to other causes than fibroids.