Right-sided cardiac thromboembolism and its successful treatment with streptokinase: case report

A sixty-eight-year-old woman with a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and large right-heart embolus on echocardiography is presented. Because of the critical clinical condition of the patient and the inability to perform surgical intervention, thrombolytic treatment (streptokinase) was admini...

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Published inAngiology Vol. 43; no. 8; p. 697
Main Authors Matana, A, Mavrić, Z, Fischer, F
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.08.1992
Subjects
Female
Heart Diseases - complications
Heart Diseases - drug therapy
Humans
Middle Aged
Pulmonary Embolism - complications
Streptokinase - therapeutic use
Thromboembolism - complications
Thromboembolism - drug therapy
Thrombolytic Therapy
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Summary:A sixty-eight-year-old woman with a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and large right-heart embolus on echocardiography is presented. Because of the critical clinical condition of the patient and the inability to perform surgical intervention, thrombolytic treatment (streptokinase) was administered. The patient's condition improved, the right-heart embolus disappeared, and on the perfusion lung scan there was only one small perfusion defect in the right lung. The authors consider thrombolysis to be appropriate treatment for right-heart thromboembolism whenever surgical embolectomy is not possible.
ISSN:0003-3197
DOI:10.1177/000331979204300811