Concomitant submassive pulmonary embolism and paradoxical embolic stroke after a long flight: Which is the optimal treatment?

Journal of Cardiovascular Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1070-1073

  Pavesi, Pier Camillo ^a   Pedone, Chiara ^a   Crisci, Michela ^a   Piacentini, Alberto ^a   Fulvi, Maria ^a   Di Pasquale, Giuseppe ^a  

^a MAGGIORE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Paradoxical stroke; Pulmonary embolism; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPNEA; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; FLIGHT; HEART ANEURYSM; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM; HEART MURMUR; HEART RIGHT LEFT SHUNT; HEMIPLEGIA; HUMAN; HYPOCAPNIA; HYPOXEMIA; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; LUNG EMBOLISM; METABOLIC ALKALOSIS; PARADOXICAL EMBOLISM; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATENT FORAMEN OVALE; STROKE; THORAX PAIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS; AIRCRAFT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART SURGERY; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AIRCRAFT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; EMBOLISM, PARADOXICAL; FEMALE; FORAMEN OVALE, PATENT; HEPARIN; HUMANS; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TRAVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL; WARFARIN;

EID: 55249107851     PISSN: 15582027     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2459/JCM.0b013e328306f2ea     Document Type: Article

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