Thrombolytic treatment of right atrial thrombus in Behçet's disease under guidance of serial transesophageal echocardiography

Journal of Heart Valve Disease

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 377-381

  Özdemir, Nihal ^a   Kaymaz, Cihangir ^a   Özkan, Mehmet ^a  

^a KOSUYOLU HEART AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; COLCHICINE; CORTICOSTEROID; STREPTOKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BEHCET DISEASE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; DOSE RESPONSE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BEHCET SYNDROME; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STREPTOKINASE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037637505     PISSN: 09668519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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