Major pulmonary embolism and shock: Persistent hypotension after thrombolysis treated with improvised mechanical fragmentation of thrombus

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 179, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 495-496

  Lapanun, Warong ^a   Walters, Darren L ^a   McCarthy, John ^a   Burstow, Darryl J ^a  

^a THE PRINCE CHARLES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TENECTEPLASE; WARFARIN;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; AORTA DISSECTION; ARTICLE; BACKACHE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD CLOTTING TIME; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; OBESITY; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SHOCK; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBUS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 0242690960     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2003.tb05654.x     Document Type: Article

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