Treatment for mechanical valve thrombosis in the right heart: Combined pharmacological and mechanical thrombolysis: Thoughts and progress

Artificial Organs

Volumn 34, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Aoyagi, Shigeaki ^a   Fukunaga, Shuji ^a   Teshima, Hideki ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Prosthesis; Pulmonary valve; Thrombolysis; Thrombosis; Tricuspid valve

Indexed keywords

DISEASES; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; HEART; VALVES (MECHANICAL);

BILEAFLET; CARDIAC PACING; CINERADIOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL; MECHANICAL DISRUPTION; MECHANICAL VALVES; PACING RATE; PULMONARY VALVES; THROMBOLYSIS; TRICUSPID VALVE;

BLOOD VESSELS;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART PACING; HEART VALVE PROSTHESIS; HUMAN; INTRACARDIAC THROMBOSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; MECHANICAL VALVE THROMBOSIS OF THE RIGHT HEART; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PACEMAKER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHETIC VALVE THROMBOSIS; THERAPY EFFECT; TRICUSPID VALVE;

EID: 77955446678     PISSN: 0160564X     EISSN: 15251594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-1594.2010.01021.x     Document Type: Article

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