State after embolectomy of the superficial femoral artery.Embolism refers in the medical field to partial or complete blockage of a blood vessel through a detached, itinerant intravascular mass material carried by circulation.Embolectomy is the medical term for the removal of an embolus with a balloon catheter. For this the balloon catheter is inserted into the occluded vessel until past the emobolus. Then the balloon catheter is inflated. Now, by pulling slowly, the embolus can be removed.
