Extensive thromboembolic disease of the hand and forearm: treatment with thrombolytic therapy. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Six patients with extensive hand and forearm thromboembolic disease were treated by means of intraarterial infusion of urokinase, with good clinical results. Four significant complications occurred, including a possible stroke. Embolization of pericatheter thrombus was a possible etiologic factor in this case. Antegrade brachial artery puncture should be used in the setting of prolonged upper extremity thrombolytic therapy to avoid the cerebral vasculature. Thrombolysis is an effective technique for tissue salvage in cases of inoperable hand thrombosis.

publication date

  • May 1, 1991

Research

keywords

  • Forearm
  • Hand
  • Thrombolytic Therapy
  • Thrombosis
  • Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0026150462

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s1051-0443(91)72283-5

PubMed ID

  • 1799758

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 2

issue

  • 2