Successful intra-arterial thrombolysis in basilar thrombosis secondary to infectious endocarditis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 295-297

  Siccoli, Massimiliano ^a   Benninger, David ^a   Schuknecht, Bernhard ^b   Jenni, Rolf ^b   Valavanis, Anton ^b   Bassetti, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; GENTAMICIN; PENICILLIN G; UROKINASE;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL ENDOCARDITIS; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; STROKE; T WAVE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; BASILAR ARTERY; ENDOCARDITIS, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS MITIS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0042744063     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000071131     Document Type: Article

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