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Life-threatening pulmonary embolism with right-sided heart thrombus. Rapid recovery with recombinant tissue
C d'Ivernois1, P Le Metayer, B Fischer
1Service de Cardiologie et Médicine Interne, Hôpital Saint-André, Bordeaux, France.
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|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
We report the case of a woman treated with urokinase for acute pulmonary embolism with a right-sided heart thrombus. She developed life-threatening acute cor pulmonale which dramatically improved within 4 h with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA). We emphasize the clinical interest of rtPA for the treatment of life-threatening pulmonary embolism.