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Pulmonary thromboembolism with massive vaginal bleeding due to thrombolytic therapy
Numan Ekim1, Nurdan Kokturk, Demet Yegin
1Gazi University School of Medicine, Department of Pulmonary Diseases, Ankara, Turkey. nekim@superonline.com
Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
|May 20, 2003
Abstract:
Thrombolytic therapy may reduce the morbidity of pulmonary thromboembolism (PTE) and the risk of recurrent disease. The most important complication of thrombolytic therapy is bleeding. We report a patient with PTE complicated by massive vaginal bleeding due to thrombolytic therapy.