Short term clinical outcome of acute saddle pulmonary embolism

Heart

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 335-336

  Pruszczyk, Piotr ^a   Pacho, R ^a   Ciurzynski, M ^a   Kurzyna, M ^b   Burakowska, B ^b   Tomkowski, W ^b   Bochowicz, A ^a   Torbicki, A ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; EMBOLISM; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037372457     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/heart.89.3.335     Document Type: Article

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