Therapeutic application of intrapericardial tissue plasminogen activator in a 4-month-old child with complex fibropurulent pericarditis

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2008, Pages

  Bigham, Michael T ^a,b   Brady, Patrick W ^a,b   Manning, Peter B ^a,b   Jacobs, Brian R ^c   Kimball, Thomas R ^a,b   Wong, Hector R ^a,b  

^a Divisions of Critical Care Medicine and Cardiology

^b CINCINNATI CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CHILDREN'S NATIONAL MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Alteplase; Amponade; Fibrinolytic therapy; Fibropurulent pericarditis; Pericardial effusion; Purulent pericardial effusion; Purulent pericarditis; Tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALTEPLASE; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; FUROSEMIDE; NORADRENALIN;

ARTICLE; ASIAN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIURESIS; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FIBROPURULENT PERICARDITIS; HEART TAMPONADE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPOXEMIA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE; INTRAPERICARDIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PERICARDIAL EFFUSION; PERICARDIOCENTESIS; PERICARDITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYMPTOM; UNITED STATES;

EID: 38049174830     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000298765.02358.07     Document Type: Article

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