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Seiji Hokimoto1, Taro Saito, Katsuo Noda

  • 1Division of Cardiology, Kumamoto Central Hospital, Tainoshima 1-5-1, Kumamoto, Kumamoto 862-0965.

Journal of Cardiology
|March 5, 2002
PubMed

A 69-year-old man presented with chronic deep vein thrombosis due to massive thrombi extending from the inferior vena cava to both femoral veins. He had undergone surgery for prostatic cancer in 1991, and since then he had been taking an artificial estrogen agent. He was successfully treated by pulse infusion thrombolysis using a unique pump system, which we have developed, without complication.

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