Clinical application of a new rheolytic thrombectomy catheter system for massive pulmonary embolism

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 91-96

  Voigtländer, Thomas ^a   Rupprecht, Hans Jürgen ^a   Nowak, Bernd ^a   Post, Felix ^a   Mayer, Eckhard ^a   Stähr, Peter ^a   Bickel, Cristoph ^a   Meyer, Jürgen ^a  

^a JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Embolism; Pulmonary; Thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC NEURINOMA; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOGENIC SHOCK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; SYNCOPE; THROMBECTOMY;

ADULT; AGED; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; EVALUATION STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HEMODYNAMIC PROCESSES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RHEOLOGY; THROMBECTOMY;

EID: 0033052586     PISSN: 15221946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1522-726X(199905)47:1<91::AID-CCD20>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Article

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