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1Second Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Chang Gung University College of Medicine, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan.
Abstract:
Tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) was administered to three patients with newly developed intracardiac thrombi. Cases 1 and 2 developed right heart thrombi after radiofrequency ablation for atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia and case 3 had tachycardia-related cardiomyopathy and a left ventricular thrombus. In all three patients, the intracardiac thrombi were successfully eliminated following t-PA therapy without major bleeding complications. These observations suggest that t-PA is effective in lysing new thrombus complicating radiofrequency ablation or heart failure and may be the therapy of choice in these conditions. Cathet. Cardiovasc. Intervent. 49:91-96, 2000.
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