Endovascular treatment of phlegmasia cerulea dolens with impending venous gangrene: Manual aspiration thrombectomy as the first-line thrombus removal method

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1214-1221

  Oguzkurt, Levent ^a   Ozkan, Ugur ^a   Demirturk, Orhan S ^a   Gur, Serkan ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Aspiration; Combined treatments; Deep vein thrombosis; Endovascular treatment; Inferior vena cava filter (IVC) placement; Thrombectomy; Thrombolysis; Vein; Venous intervention

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE EDEMA; ARTICLE; BELOW KNEE AMPUTATION; CATHETER DIRECTED THROMBOLYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEG SWELLING; LIMB PAIN; MALE; MAY THURNER SYNDROME; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHLEGMASIA CERULEA DOLENS; POPLITEAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; REPEAT PROCEDURE; SAPHENOUS VEIN; SEPSIS; STENOSIS; STENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN GANGRENE; VEIN INSUFFICIENCY; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTICOAGULANTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; GANGRENE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SAPHENOUS VEIN; STENTS; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84856720062     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-010-0042-5     Document Type: Article

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