Hybrid treatment of acute massive pulmonary thromboembolism: Mechanical fragmentation with a modified rotating pigtail catheter, local fibrinolytic therapy, and clot aspiration followed by systemic fibrinolytic therapy

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 183, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 589-595

  Tajima, Hiroyuki ^a   Murata, Satoru ^a   Kumazaki, Tatsuo ^a   Nakazawa, Ken ^a   Abe, Yutaka ^a   Komada, Yasushige ^a   Niggemann, Pascal ^a   Takayama, Morimasa ^a   Tanaka, Keiji ^a   Takano, Teruo ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CATHETER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FAILURE; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG PERFUSION; MALE; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 4344632737     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.183.3.1830589     Document Type: Article

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