Pharmacomechanical Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Deep-Vein Thrombosis

Vedantham, Suresh; Z. Goldhaber, Samuel; A. Julian, Jim; R. Kahn, Susan; R. Jaff, Michael; J. Cohen, David; A. Magnuson, Elizabeth; K. Razavi, Mahmood; J. Comerota, Anthony; L. Gornik, Heather; P. Murphy, Timothy; M. Lewis, Lawrence; R. Duncan, James; Nieters, Patricia; C. Derfler, Mary; L. Filion, Marc; Gu, Chu-Shu; T. Kee, Stephen; R. Schneider, Joseph; Saad, Nael; A. Blinder, Morey; Moll, Stephan; Sacks, David; C. Lin, Judith; H. Rundback, John; J. Garcia, Mark; Razdan, Rahul; VanderWoude, Eric; Marques, Vasco; Kearon, Clive

doi:10.1056/nejmoa1615066

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Pharmacomechanical Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Deep-Vein Thrombosis

Published in New England Journal of Medicine • Dec 6, 2017

Authors:

Suresh Vedantham

Samuel Z. Goldhaber

Jim A. Julian

Abstract

BACKGROUND: The post-thrombotic syndrome frequently develops in patients with proximal deep-vein thrombosis despite treatment with anticoagulant therapy. Pharmacomechanical catheter-directed thrombolysis (hereafter "pharmacomechanical thrombolysis") rapidly removes thrombus and is hypothesized to re...

Subject

Medicine

Thrombolysis

Thrombus

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