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[Spontaneous liver rupture after thrombolytic therapy with streptokinase]
M Hinterthaner1, M Kaminski, A Hirner
1Klinik und Poliklinik für Chirurgie, Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Born.
Zentralblatt Fur Chirurgie
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
Two months after an osteosynthesis of a Maisonneuve-fracture a 45-year-old patient developed a thrombosis of the deep veins on the side of the fracture. Subsequent to two days of lysis with Streptokinase a rupture of the liver occurred and was treated by hemihepatectomy. A traumatic event or a tumor could be excluded as reason for the rupture. Therefore a rupture of the liver due to the application of Streptokinase has to be assumed.