Fibrinolytic treatment for recurrent left sided prosthetic valve thrombosis

Heart

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 821-822

  Balasundaram, R P ^a   Karthikeyan, Ganesan ^a   Kothari, S S ^a   Talwar, K K ^a   Venugopal, P ^a  

^a ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

AORTA PROSTHESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DEATH; DOPPLER ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; RECURRENT DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STROKE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RECURRENCE; STREPTOKINASE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 20044374588     PISSN: 13556037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/hrt.2004.044123     Document Type: Article

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