[Activator treatment of acute venous thrombosis (author's transl)]

Plasminogen activator contains equimolar proportions of streptokinase and human plasminogen, and as proactivator-streptokinase complex it has activator properties. In nine patients with recent venous thromboses of the upper or lower limbs plasminogen activator treatment achieved complete recanalisation in 14 of 27 veins occluded by thrombosis and partially in six. Clotting tests indicated that activator treatment can be better controlled than streptokinase treatment.