Intravenous thrombolytic treatment of mechanical prosthetic valve thrombosis: A study using serial transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of the American College of Cardiology

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 1881-1889

  Özkan, Mehmet ^a   Kaymaz, Cihangir ^a   Kirma, Cevat ^a   Sönmez, Kenan ^a   Özdemir, Nihal ^a   Balkanay, Mehmet ^a   Yakut, Cevat ^a   Deligönül, Ubeydullah ^b  

^a KOSUYOLU HEART AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; AORTA VALVE; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN EMBOLISM; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG INFUSION; DRUG RESPONSE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MALE; MITRAL VALVE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0034111815     PISSN: 07351097     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0735-1097(00)00654-9     Document Type: Article

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