Port-a-Cath complicated by right atrial thrombus: Minimally invasive thrombectomie without cardiopulmonary bypass

Zeitschrift fur Kardiologie

Volumn 93, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 706-708

  Vicol, C ^a   Nollert, G ^a   Mair, H ^a   Reichart, B ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cardiac surgery; Lung embolism; Port a Cath; Right atrial thrombus

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; DANAPAROID; HEPARIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL CATHETERIZATION; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CARCINOMATOUS PERITONITIS; CARDIOPULMONARY BYPASS; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DEVICE; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEPARIN INDUCED THROMBOCYTOPENIA; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MINIMALLY INVASIVE CARDIAC SURGERY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORACOTOMY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; THORACOTOMY; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 4644254836     PISSN: 03005860     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00392-004-0121-1     Document Type: Article

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