Originally Posted by
wacojoe
Sounds scary to me. Hang in there.
Question: it sounds like this devise acts as a kind of filter to catch blood clots. If it catches any, what cleans the filter?
You are almost right--for a relatively short period of time it does act as a filter---and then the magic happens---read the thread on the rest of the story!
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