Free-floating thrombus in the right heart and pulmonary embolism

International Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Mansencal, Nicolas ^a   Dubourg, Olivier ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VASOACTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HEART VENTRICLES; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33748473562     PISSN: 01675273     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.02.018     Document Type: Article

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