{"id":49358,"date":"2025-06-01T12:31:54","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T07:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=49358"},"modified":"2025-06-10T10:52:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T05:22:39","slug":"thrombectomy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/thrombectomy\/","title":{"rendered":"Thrombectomy"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thrombectomy Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Technology Development Board (TDB), under the Centre\u2019s Department of Science and Technology (DST), recently announced financial support for the development of India\u2019s first indigenous thrombectomy device for stroke care.<\/p>\n<h2>About Thrombectomy<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A thrombectomy is a\u00a0<strong>surgical or interventional treatment to remove blood clots<\/strong>\u00a0in an\u00a0<strong>artery or vein<\/strong>\u00a0to help restore blood flow through your blood vessel.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<strong>blood clot<\/strong>, also\u00a0<strong>known as a thrombus<\/strong>, can\u00a0<strong>obstruct blood flow,<\/strong>\u00a0leading to tissue damage or even death.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Some of the most common places for blood clots to occur are your legs, arms, intestines, brain, lungs, and heart.<\/li>\n<li>Thrombectomies are\u00a0<strong>performed to restore blood flow\u00a0<\/strong>and prevent serious consequences. \u202f\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sometimes\u00a0<\/strong>a thrombectomy\u00a0<strong>must be performed within a matter of hours<\/strong>\u00a0to prevent life- or limb-threatening complications from occurring.<\/li>\n<li>There are two large\u00a0<strong>categories of thrombectomies:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Surgical (open) Thrombectomy:\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>During a surgical thrombectomy, your\u00a0<strong>surgeon makes an incision\u00a0<\/strong>to get to your blocked blood vessel,\u00a0<strong>cuts open your blood vessel, removes\u00a0<\/strong>the\u00a0<strong>blood clot using a balloon<\/strong>, and then\u00a0<strong>repairs the blood vessel.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Percutaneous (minimally invasive) Thrombectomy:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>During a mechanical thrombectomy, your\u00a0<strong>surgeon introduces special devices through catheters<\/strong>\u00a0that can either macerate or\u00a0<strong>suction out clots<\/strong>\u00a0from within your blood vessel.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>When there\u2019s a<strong>\u00a0residual clot<\/strong>\u00a0left, your surgeon will\u00a0<strong>infuse the area with local clot-dissolving medicines.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Thrombectomy FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. What is the main goal of a thrombectomy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. To remove blood clots and restore blood flow.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is the main difference between surgical and percutaneous thrombectomy?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. The use of open surgery vs. catheters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. During a surgical thrombectomy, how is the clot typically removed?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. By cutting open the vessel and extracting it using a balloon.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source<\/strong>:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/industry\/news\/centre-backs-indigenous-thrombectomy-device-for-stroke-treatment-125053001853_1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">BS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thrombectomy is a surgical or interventional treatment to remove blood clots in an artery or vein to help restore blood flow through your blood vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[21,704,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-49358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-prelims-pointers","9":"tag-thrombectomy","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}