Thrombolytic therapy with tissue plasminogen activator for the treatment of nonstructural malfunction of bileaflet cardiac valve prostheses

Artificial Organs

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 460-466

  Teshima, Hideki ^a   Hayashida, Nobuhiko ^a   Nishimi, Masaru ^a   Tayama, Eiki ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Tomoeda, Hiroshi ^a   Chihara, Shingo ^a   Enomoto, Naofumi ^a   Kawara, Takemi ^a   Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cineradiography; Nonstructural prosthetic valve malfunction; Pannus; Thrombolytic therapy; Tissue plasminogen activator; Urokinase

Indexed keywords

ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; RADIOGRAPHY;

BILEAFLET; CARDIAC VALVE PROSTHESIS; CINERADIOGRAPHY; NON-STRUCTURAL; NONSTRUCTURAL PROSTHETIC VALVE MALFUNCTION; PANNUS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPIES; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; UROKINASE;

TISSUE;

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; MONTEPLASE; PAMITEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; REVIEW; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 18344396410     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1594.2002.06988.x     Document Type: Review

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