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Blood Clots

Advanced vascular evaluation and treatment pathways for selected clot-related circulation problems.

Overview

Overview of Blood Clots

Blood clots can form in veins or arteries and may limit healthy blood flow. Venous blood clots include deep vein thrombosis, which often starts in the leg, thigh, pelvis, or arm, and pulmonary embolism, which occurs when part of a clot travels to the lungs.

AVC evaluates clot-related circulation problems with careful imaging, symptom review, and a practical treatment plan. Some patients need medication and monitoring, while selected patients may benefit from minimally invasive, image-guided treatment.

Important: Sudden shortness of breath, chest pain, fainting, or coughing blood can signal an emergency. Seek emergency care right away.
Advanced Vascular Centers evaluation room for Blood Clots
Comfortable outpatient evaluation in a clinical setting.

Symptoms

Blood Clots Symptoms

Symptoms vary from patient to patient, but these concerns often lead people to seek a focused evaluation.

  • Leg, thigh, pelvis, or arm swelling
  • Pain, tenderness, cramping, or heaviness
  • Warmth, redness, or skin discoloration
  • New shortness of breath or chest pain with breathing
  • Rapid breathing, faster heart rate, fainting, or coughing blood
Advanced Vascular Centers outpatient facility for Blood Clots
AVC offers advanced image-guided care in an outpatient-focused setting when appropriate.

FAQs

Top 10 Blood Clots Questions

Blood clots can form in veins or arteries and may limit healthy blood flow. Venous blood clots include deep vein thrombosis, which often starts in the leg, thigh, pelvis, or arm, and pulmonary embolism, which occurs when part of a clot travels to the lungs.

Common symptoms may include leg, thigh, pelvis, or arm swelling, pain, tenderness, cramping, or heaviness, warmth, redness, or skin discoloration, new shortness of breath or chest pain with breathing. A focused evaluation helps determine whether the symptoms match this condition or another cause.

Consider an evaluation when symptoms are persistent, worsening, limiting daily activity, or not improving with conservative care. Urgent symptoms should be handled by emergency care first.

The AVC team reviews symptoms, medical history, prior treatments, and imaging. Additional vascular or image-guided evaluation may be recommended when it helps guide next steps.

Treatment depends on the diagnosis, imaging findings, symptom severity, and overall health. These AVC procedure pages explain related image-guided options.

Thrombectomy is one related AVC treatment pathway that may be considered after evaluation. The specific recommendation depends on diagnosis, imaging, safety factors, and treatment goals.

AVC focuses on non-surgical, minimally invasive, image-guided procedures when they are appropriate. Some patients may still need medication, conservative care, surgery, or another referral depending on findings.

Candidacy depends on symptom pattern, imaging results, overall health, current medications, and whether the expected benefit outweighs risk. AVC reviews these factors before recommending a procedure.

Recovery varies by procedure and patient. Many outpatient image-guided procedures are designed for same-day care, and the care team explains activity limits and follow-up before treatment.

Request an appointment with AVC or send a referral so the team can review symptoms, imaging, and the most appropriate next step.

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