When Lorenzo Callahan first started working in interventional radiology at Northside Hospital over a decade ago, patients with a high-risk pulmonary embolism often faced a dire prognosis. The standard approach was to deliver a slow drip of clot-busting drugs to the lungs through a catheter. But bleeding was often a problem, and the clot was prone to recur. Recent technological advances have allowed physicians to use suction to physically remove clots with superior results.
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