Massive thromboembolic stroke and death after fibrinolytic therapy of St. Jude prosthetic mitral valve thrombosis: Documentation by transthoracic Doppler echocardiography

American Heart Journal

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 1994, Pages 406-409

  Pape, Linda A ^a   Love, Donald G ^a   Gore, Joel M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MITRAL VALVE PROSTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS;

AGED; CASE REPORT; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, DOPPLER; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MITRAL VALVE; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0028124482     PISSN: 00028703     EISSN: 10976744     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0002-8703(94)90495-2     Document Type: Article

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