Ultrasound enhanced prehospital thrombolysis using microbubbles infusion in patients with acute st elevation myocardial infarction: Pilot of the sonolysis study

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 247-252

  Slikkerveer, Jeroen ^a,b   Kleijn, Sebastiaan A ^a,b   Appelman, Yolande ^a   Porter, Thomas R ^c   Veen, Gerrit ^a,b   van Rossum, Albert C ^a,b   Kamp, Otto ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b ROYAL NETHERLANDS ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Facilitated PCI; Microbubbles; STEMI; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EVENTS; ANIMAL STUDIES; CONTROL GROUPS; FACILITATED PCI; MECHANICAL INDEXES; MICROBUBBLES; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PILOT STUDIES; PRE-TREATMENT; SONOLYSIS; STEMI; THROMBOLYSIS;

THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS;

PATIENT TREATMENT;

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; PLACEBO;

ADULT; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MICROBUBBLE; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; ST SEGMENT ELEVATION MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, PARENTERAL; MALE; MICROBUBBLES; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855493224     PISSN: 03015629     EISSN: 1879291X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2011.11.001     Document Type: Article

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