Successful fibrinolytic treatment in a pregnant woman with acute mitral prosthetic valve thrombosis

Clinical Cardiology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Kaya, Ergün Bariş ^a   Kocabaş, Ǔgur ^a   Aksoy, Hakan ^a   Aytemir, Kudret ^a   Tokgözoǧlu, Lale ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; RECOMBINANT PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART MURMUR; HUMAN; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MITRAL VALVE; MITRAL VALVE REPLACEMENT; PAROXYSMAL DYSPNEA; PREGNANT WOMAN; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; SINUS TACHYCARDIA; ST SEGMENT; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; ACUTE DISEASE; CESAREAN SECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; HEART VALVE REPLACEMENT; LIVE BIRTH; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; SURGERY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CESAREAN SECTION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; HUMANS; LIVE BIRTH; MITRAL VALVE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, CARDIOVASCULAR; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOSIS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77953885630     PISSN: 01609289     EISSN: 19328737     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/clc.20637     Document Type: Article

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