Lysis of a right atrial thrombus of more than a week's duration by high dose urokinase in a one-year-old child

Haematologica

Volumn 82, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 357-359

  Dufour, Carlo ^a   Molinari, Angelo Claudio ^a   Tasso, Loredana ^a   De Caro, Enrico ^a   Rimini, Alessandro ^a   Mori, Pier Giorgio ^a  

^a G GASLINI INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Central venous catheter; Children; Fibrinolytic therapy; Right atrial thrombus; Thrombotic therapy; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CHILD; DRUG MEGADOSE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANTICOAGULANTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; INFANT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

EID: 0031437030     PISSN: 03906078     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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