Techniques for thrombus removal include catheter-directed thrombolysis, mechanical thrombectomy and various combinations of both (pharmacomechanical catheter-directed thrombolysis). There are no ...

Chicago-based Flow Medical is developing a new thrombolysis system for treating acute pulmonary embolism (PE).

Flow Medical, a UChicago Medicine-born startup developing a device to treat pulmonary embolisms, has received the first ...

thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism. Ideally this should include comparative studies against catheter-directed thrombolysis alone. Patient selection should be documented. The dose of thrombolytic ...

One milliliter of alteplase 1 mg/mL or 1 mL of urokinnase 5000 units/mL was instilled into each catheter port. The choice of thrombolytic agent was left to the prescriber. The catheter lumen was ...

Unfractionated heparin is used for both therapeutic anticoagulation and for maintaining vascular catheter patency via ... Conference on Antithrombotic and Thrombolytic Therapy (1).