When is urokinase treatment an effective sole or adjunctive treatment for acute limb ischemia secondary to native artery occlusion?

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 178, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-106

  Suggs, William D ^a   Cynamon, Jacob ^a   Martin, Brian ^a   Sanchez, Luis A ^a   Wahl, Samuel I ^a   Aronoff, Ben ^a   Veith, Frank J ^a  

^a MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

UROKINASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; ILIAC ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE RATE; SUPERFICIAL FEMORAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD VOLUME; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTERMITTENT CLAUDICATION; ISCHEMIA; LEG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; POPLITEAL ARTERY; PULSE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VASCULAR PATENCY;

EID: 0032855225     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(99)00135-X     Document Type: Article

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