Back to Search
Start Over
Catheter-Directed Thrombolysis for Submassive Pulmonary Embolism in the Third Trimester of Pregnancy
- Source :
- JACC: Case Reports, vol 2, iss 12, JACC: Case Reports, Vol 2, Iss 12, Pp 1899-1904 (2020), JACC Case Reports
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- eScholarship, University of California, 2020.
-
Abstract
- A 37-year-old woman presented with chest pain and shortness of breath in the third trimester of pregnancy. Diagnostic imaging demonstrated a saddle pulmonary embolism, severe impairment of right ventricular function, and an extensive deep venous thrombus. She underwent catheter-directed thrombolysis with tissue plasminogen activator and delivered a healthy infant at term. (Level of Difficulty: Intermediate.)<br />Graphical abstract
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Catheter directed thrombolysis
030105 genetics & heredity
Chest pain
Third trimester
Tissue plasminogen activator
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Internal medicine
medicine
Diseases of the circulatory (Cardiovascular) system
CDT, catheter-directed thrombolysis
UFH, unfractionated heparin
Thrombus
POD, post-operative day
catheter-directed thrombolysis
Pregnancy
business.industry
Thrombolysis
thromboembolism
medicine.disease
Pulmonary embolism
RV, right ventricle
PA, pulmonary artery
Mini-Focus Issue: Interventional Cardiology
RC666-701
PE, pulmonary embolism
Cardiology
Case Report: Clinical Case
CTA, computed tomography angiography
pregnancy
medicine.symptom
Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine
business
IV, intravenous
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
medicine.drug
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- JACC: Case Reports, vol 2, iss 12, JACC: Case Reports, Vol 2, Iss 12, Pp 1899-1904 (2020), JACC Case Reports
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....663afae593addc6a201f6eb295f34c47