Obstructive left-sided prosthetic valve thrombosis

Acute Cardiac Care

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 160-168

  Shapira, Yaron ^a,b   Vaturi, Modrehay ^a   Sagie, Alex ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

Prosthetic heart valve; Thrombolysis; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE;

ANTICOAGULATION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOADING DRUG DOSE; MORTALITY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REOPERATION; THROMBOSIS; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC;

CORONARY THROMBOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY, TRANSESOPHAGEAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMANS; SHOCK, CARDIOGENIC; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 70350116974     PISSN: 17482941     EISSN: 1748295X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17482940903059143     Document Type: Article

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