Thrombectomy reduces the systemic complications in device-related right atrial septic thrombosis

Canadian Journal of Cardiology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Sontineni, Siva Prasad ^a   White, Michael ^a   Singh, Sindhu ^b   Arouni, Amy ^a   Cloutier, David ^a   Nair, Chandra K ^a   Mohiuddin, Syed M ^a,b  

^a CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atria; Catheters; Complications; Infection; Surgery; Thrombolysis; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; DAPTOMYCIN; HEPARIN; METICILLIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VANCOMYCIN; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CULTURE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DEATH; DIALYSIS CATHETER; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MEDLINE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STERNOTOMY; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; HEART ATRIUM; HEART DISEASE; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTICOAGULANTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HEART ATRIA; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RENAL DIALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 63049136101     PISSN: 0828282X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0828-282X(09)70482-9     Document Type: Article

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