Thrombus formation on the balloon of heparin-bonded pulmonary artery catheters: An ultrastructural scanning electron microscope study

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 727-735

  Hofbauer, Roland ^a,c   Moser, Doris ^a   Kaye, Alan D ^c   Dielacher, Christoph ^b   Hornykewycz, Stephan ^a   Handler, Sylvia ^a   Speiser, Wolfgang ^a   Kapiotis, Stylianos ^a   Frass, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Catheter balloon; Heparin bonded catheter; Pulmonary artery catheters; Pulmonary artery flotation catheter; Scanning electron microscopy; Thrombus formation

Indexed keywords

ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTENSIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; THROMBOCYTE AGGREGATION; THROMBOGENESIS;

EID: 0034105239     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-200003000-00021     Document Type: Article

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