thrombolytic
The clot-busting drug warfarin is prescribed for millions of heart-attack patients.
To be successful, treatment with clotbusting drugs needs to begin within a few hours of the start of the stroke.
They put in a catheter and injected a clot-busting agent.
This raised levels of a substance which prevents the body's own clotbusting chemicals from working effectively.

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Disorders & diseases of the heart & blood
acidosis
acquired agammaglobulinemia
adult-onset diabetes
afib
agammaglobulinemia
anaemic
apoplexy
coarctation of the aorta
congenital erythropoietic porphyria
congestive heart failure
coronary heart disease
coronary thrombosis
decompression sickness
furred
MGUS
mini-stroke
mitral
monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance
monocyte disorder
toxaemia

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