Relation of Ultrasound Morphologic Characteristics of Central Pulmonary Artery Thromboemboli to Their Ex Vivo Lysibility

Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 276-280

  Podbregar, Matej ^a   Gabršček, Lucija ^b   Pakiž, Maja ^c   Blinc, Aleš ^a   Šabović, Mišo ^a   Kralj, Eduard ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

^b General Hospital Celje   (Slovenia)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTRE MARIBOR   (Slovenia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LJUBLJANA   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; D DIMER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MORTALITY; PULMONARY ARTERY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; WEIGHT;

AGED; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MALE; PROGNOSIS; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 33847265324     PISSN: 08947317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.echo.2006.08.033     Document Type: Article

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