Abstract
A 66-year-old man was admitted to the hospital with increasing shortness of breath of 14 days' duration and progressive swelling of his right leg during the preceding 7 hours. While the clinical diagnosis was deep venous thrombosis of the right leg with pulmonary embolism, two-dimensional echocardiography demonstrated a thrombus-in-transit (right-heart thrombus type A). After thrombolytic therapy with 100 mg of rTPA the patient's condition improved significantly and the thrombus disappeared completely. If in suspected pulmonary embolism echocardiography reveals a thrombus-in-transit thrombolytic therapy with rTPA can be applied effectively.
| Translated title of the contribution | Effective fibrinolytic therapy of a thrombus-in-transit with rTPA - A case report |
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| Original language | German |
| Pages (from-to) | 447-451 |
| Number of pages | 5 |
| Journal | Intensivmedizin und Notfallmedizin |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| State | Published - 1994 |
Keywords
- rTPA
- right-heart thrombus
- thrombus-in-transit
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Emergency Medicine
- Emergency
- Critical Care and Intensive Care Medicine