Massive pulmonary embolism after treatment with rFVIIa in a thrombocytopenic patient with acute myelogenous leukemia and intractable bleeding [5]

European Journal of Haematology

Volumn 78, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 173-174

  Mantzios, George ^a   Tsirigotis, Panagiotis ^a   Pappa, Vassiliki ^a   Spirou, Konstantina ^a   Giannopoulou, Vassiliki ^a   Kaitsa, Irene ^a   Girkas, Konstantinos ^a   Papageorgiou, Efstathios ^a   Dervenoulas, John ^a  

^a IASO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTARABINE; IDARUBICIN; RECOMBINANT BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 7A;

ACUTE GRANULOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; AGED; ANAMNESIS; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETTER; LUNG EMBOLISM; PHYSICIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMISSION; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SURGEON; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FACTOR VII; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FLUID THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEMOSTATICS; HUMANS; LEUKEMIA, MYELOID; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SALVAGE THERAPY; THROMBOCYTHEMIA, HEMORRHAGIC; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOPHILIA; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 33846034540     PISSN: 09024441     EISSN: 16000609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0609.2006.00799.x     Document Type: Letter

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