Massive pulmonary embolism in pregnancy treated with catheter fragmentation and local thrombolysis

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 106, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1158-1160

  Bechtel, Joel J ^a   Mountford, Mark C ^a   Ellinwood, William E ^a  

^a St Mary's Hospital Grand Junction   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; ENOXAPARIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; HYPERTENSIVE FACTOR; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN; NORADRENALIN; OXYGEN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CATHETERIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FETUS HEART RATE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTENSION; LUNG EMBOLISM; OXYGEN THERAPY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX PAIN; UTERUS BLOOD FLOW;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 27444442734     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000164058.63244.9c     Document Type: Article

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