The treatment options include injection of an anticoagulant, thrombolysis, embolectomy, surgical revascularisation, or partial amputation. It is important to note that acute pulmonary embolectomy is a dramatically different procedure. It was here, in 1925 that Jefferson performed the first successful embolectomy in England. Possible complications of balloon embolectomy include intimal lesions, which can lead to another thrombosis. Outcome of embolectomy varies with size and location of the embolus. Embolectomy is the emergency surgical removal of emboli which are blocking blood circulation.