Quality improvement guidelines for percutaneous catheter-directed intra-arterial thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy for acute lower-limb ischemia

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1123-1136

  Karnabatidis, Dimitris ^a   Spiliopoulos, Stavros ^a   Tsetis, Dimitrios ^b   Siablis, Dimitris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; HEPARIN; RECOMBINANT PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; RETEPLASE; STREPTOKINASE; TENECTEPLASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CATHETER THROMBOSIS; CATHETERIZATION; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG HALF LIFE; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG ISCHEMIA; LEG REVASCULARIZATION; LIMB SALVAGE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MEDICAL DEVICE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT SAFETY; PERCUTANEOUS THROMBECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK BENEFIT ANALYSIS; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ALGORITHMS; CATHETERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LEG; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 84856728433     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-011-0258-z     Document Type: Article

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