Successful Thrombolysis of an Aortic-Arch Thrombus in a Patient after Mesenteric Embolism

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 327, Issue 7, 1992, Pages 500-501

  Hausmann, Dirk ^a   Gulba, Dietrich ^a   Bargheer, Klaus ^a   Niedermeyer, Jost ^a   Comess, Keith A ^a   Daniel, Werner G ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AORTA ARCH; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LETTER; MESENTERIC ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AORTA, THORACIC; AORTIC DISEASES; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; HUMAN; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MESENTERIC VASCULAR OCCLUSION; MIDDLE AGE; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0026748373     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM199208133270717     Document Type: Letter

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