Anticoagulation is an effective treatment for aortic mural thrombi

Journal of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 713-719

  Bowdish, Michael E ^a,b   Weaver, Fred A ^a,b   Liebman, Howard A ^a,b   Rowe, Vincent L ^a,b   Hood, Douglas B ^a,b  

^a University of Southern California ^*

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN III; BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 8; HEPARIN; HOMOCYSTEINE; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; PROTEIN C;

ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULATION; ANTITHROMBIN III DEFICIENCY; AORTA THROMBOSIS; AORTIC MURAL THROMBI; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSFIBRINOGENEMIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMOPHILIA A; HOMOCYSTINURIA; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; LIMB ISCHEMIA; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN C DEFICIENCY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; THORACIC AORTA; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; AORTA DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; MIDDLE AGED; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TIME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANTS; AORTIC DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART DISEASES; HEPARIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036782392     PISSN: 07415214     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1067/mva.2002.127968     Document Type: Article

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