Catalog

Cardiac embolism

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Link to WHO Definition

Cardiac embolism – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/1557413945

This is a cardiac lodging of an embolus (a detached intravascular mass capable of clogging arterial capillary beds at a site far from its origin) into a narrow capillary vessel of an arterial bed which causes a blockage (vascular occlusion) in a distant part of the body.