A case of acute massive pulmonary thromboembolism treated by mechanical clot fragmentation using a percutaneous transluminal angioplasty balloon

Japanese Circulation Journal

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 531-535

  Isoda, Kikuo ^a   Satomura, Kimio ^a   Hamabe, Akira ^a   Hagisawa, Kohsuke ^a   Kamezawa, Yasuhiro ^a   Sugiyabu, Yasunori ^a   Kurita, Akira ^a   Nakamura, Haruo ^a  

^a NATIONAL DEFENSE MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inferior vena cava filter; Massive pulmonary thromboembolism; Mechanical clot fragmentation; Percutaneous transluminal angioplasty balloon

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; PROUROKINASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; AORTA; BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 0030800228     PISSN: 00471828     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1253/jcj.61.531     Document Type: Article

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