Successful local arterial urokinase infusion to reverse late postoperative venous thrombosis of a renal graft

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 2225-2227

  Bedani, Pier Luigi ^a   Galeotti, Roberto ^b   Mugnani, Giovanni ^a   Risichella, Isidoro Sciré ^a   Rizzioli, Emanuela ^a   Verzola, Adriano ^a   Borgatti, Luca ^b   Sala, Simone ^b   La Torre, Costantina ^a   Stabellini, Giordano ^b   Gilli, Paolo ^a  

^a S ANNA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b Azienda Ospedale S Anna ^*

Author keywords

Kidney transplantation; Renal vein; Thrombolytic therapy; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

CREATININE; HEPARIN; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; KIDNEY PERFUSION; KIDNEY POLYCYSTIC DISEASE; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RENAL CIRCULATION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032809462     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/14.9.2225     Document Type: Article

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