saddle embolus

"It was what is called a saddle embolus," Green said.

A saddle embolus or straddling embolism is a thrombus that straddles a dividing blood vessel.

Leriche's syndrome - Impotence and buttock claudication and absent pulses in the groin and legs due to saddle embolus or atherosclerosis at the aortic bifurcation.