Catheter fragmentation of acute massive pulmonary thromboembolism: Distal embolisation and pulmonary arterial pressure elevation

British Journal of Radiology

Volumn 81, Issue 971, 2008, Pages 848-854

  Nakazawa, Ken ^a,b   Tajima, H ^a   Murata, S ^a   Kumita, S I ^a   Yamamoto, T ^a   Tanaka, K ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; MONTEPLASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG ARTERY PRESSURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PATIENT MONITORING; RECANALIZATION; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSLUMINAL CORONARY ANGIOPLASTY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ANGIOPLASTY, TRANSLUMINAL, PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY; BLOOD PRESSURE; CATHETERIZATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PULMONARY ARTERY; PULMONARY EMBOLISM; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; SUCTION; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 55249108476     PISSN: 00071285     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1259/bjr/93840362     Document Type: Article

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