In the study, which included 27 patients with PEs who were treated with the ultrasound device, all of the patients survived and they experienced a significant reduction in right heart chamber size.
In addition, the size of each clot was reduced by an average of more than 50%.
In the ultrasound method, the device is inserted through the blood vessels to the site of blockage, where it emits the sound waves that loosens the clot and allow the clot-busting drugs to dissolve it faster.
PE can occur after a clot in another part of the body, dislodges and travels through heart, lodging in a lung artery.
