INTRAPERICARDIAL INSTILLATION OF RECOMBINANT TISSUE-PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR - A CASE-REPORT

Authors
RAHMAN A ILKAY E BURMA O UYAR IS AKKUS MN OZDEMIR F CEKIRDEKCI A
Citation
A. Rahman et al., INTRAPERICARDIAL INSTILLATION OF RECOMBINANT TISSUE-PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR - A CASE-REPORT, Journal of interventional cardiology, 11(2), 1998, pp. 143-146
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Cardiac & Cardiovascular System
Journal title
Journal of interventional cardiology → ACNP
ISSN journal
08964327
Volume
11
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Pages
143 - 146
Database
ISI
SICI code
0896-4327(1998)11:2<143:IIORTA>2.0.ZU;2-0
Abstract
On the 43rd day after open heart surgery, pericardial effusion develop ed in a patient and resulted in cardiac tamponade. Since the drainage could not be obtained by subxiphoid window technique due to location o f fluid and presence of fibrinous adherence and a thrombus in pericard ial space, transcatheter intrapericardial recombinant tissue plasminog en activator (tPA) was instilled in the patient. Thus, the intraperica rdial fibrinous adherence and the thrombus disappeared, and the effusi on was drained efficiently.