Acute iliofemoral venous thrombosis in patients with atresia of the inferior vena cava can be treated successfully with catheter-directed thrombolysis

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 22, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 801-805

  Broholm, Rikke ^a   Jørgensen, Maja ^a   Just, Sven ^a   Jensen, Leif P ^a   Bækgaard, Niels ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD CLOTTING FACTOR 5 LEIDEN; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULATION; APPLICATION SITE BLEEDING; ARTICLE; ATRESIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CATHETER DIRECTED THROMBOLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPRESSION GARMENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FOLLOW UP; HEMATURIA; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEG PHLEBOGRAPHY; LEG VARICOSIS; LOW BACK PAIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; MALE; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; THROMBOPHILIA; ULTRASOUND; VEIN BLOOD FLOW;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTICOAGULANTS; CATHETERIZATION, PERIPHERAL; DENMARK; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HEPARIN; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STOCKINGS, COMPRESSION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR MALFORMATIONS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS; WARFARIN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79957538964     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: 15357732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2011.01.449     Document Type: Article

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