Management of massive and nonmassive pulmonary embolism

Archives of Medical Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 957-969

  Sekhri, Vishal ^a   Mehta, Nimeshkumar ^a   Rawat, Naveen ^a   Lehrman, Stuart G ^a   Aronow, Wilbert S ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anticoagulation; Embolectomy; Pulmonary embolism; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; ALTEPLASE; D DIMER; DOBUTAMINE; DOPAMINE; HEPARIN; MILRINONE; NITRIC OXIDE; NORADRENALIN; PROSTACYCLIN; STREPTOKINASE; UROKINASE; WARFARIN;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CENTRAL VENOUS PRESSURE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART RIGHT VENTRICLE FUNCTION; HUMAN; HYPOTENSION; INOTROPISM; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; MASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM; MEDICATION THERAPY MANAGEMENT; NONMASSIVE PULMONARY EMBOLISM; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TRANSESOPHAGEAL ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873154639     PISSN: 17341922     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5114/aoms.2012.32402     Document Type: Review

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