Thrombolysis (removal of the blood clot with "clot buster" medication) has been described, either systemically by injection into a vein or directly into the clot during angiography.
In September 2012, CLOT collaborated with Japanese brand Casio to produce the G-Shock 30th anniversary wristwatch.
Dr. James Grotta was principal investigator in Houston for the first major trial showing benefits of clot-busting drug Tissue Plasminogen Activator (tPA).
April 16 - A test flight of Byrd's $100,000 Fokker C-2 monoplane, America results in a nose-over crash, resulting in Byrd suffering a broken wrist, pilot Floyd Bennett breaking his collarbone and leg, and flight engineer George Otto Noville requiring surgery for a blood clot.
Red wine, which contains the antioxidant resveratrol, and alcohol, which some researchers think may help to reduce atherosclerosis by reducing clotting.
Categories of reperfusion therapy thus include clot-busting (thrombolytic) drugs and procedures to open arteries with stents, or to graft arteries around blockages.
Surgicel is a hemostatic agent (blood-clot-inducing material) made of an oxydized cellulose polymer (the unit is polyanhydroglucuronic acid), manufactured by Johnson and Johnson's Ethicon subsidiary.
Adam Harrington, age 16, died of heart failure caused by a blood clot, sustained while hiking with his family on Mount Diablo, a 3,849 feet mountain in the San Francisco Bay Area, on Easter Sunday, 1995.
After returning to the Czech Republic in the off-season, Fleischmann was found to have developed a blood clot in his leg due to Deep vein thrombosis from the cross-Atlantic flight and would miss the pre-season and the start of the 2009–10 season.