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Medications for PE fall into two categories: blood thinners (anticoagulants) and clot-dissolvers (thrombolytics). These two classes of medications serve completely different purposes ...

Study Design The Combined Angioplasty and Pharmacological Intervention Versus Thrombolytics Alone in Acute Myocardial Infarction (CAPITAL-AMI) study [2] was designed to assess the use of a ...

Bayer is hoping that the antibody could provide an alternative to thrombolytics like t-PA, which are only moderately effective at dissolving blood clots in DVT. Thrombolytics frequently cause mild ...

For patients with acute ischemic stroke due to a large-vessel occlusion (LVO), administering intra-arterial thrombolytics after successful endovascular thrombectomy does not significantly improve ...

The primary RCT cohort excluded patients with absolute contraindications to thrombolytics and enrolled very few patients with relative contraindications. In addition to Dr. Jaber, study leadership ...

Endoleak is a frequent complication after endovascular aortic repair and is a risk factor for spontaneous rupture of aneurysm. Administration of thrombolytics in patients with known abdominal aortic ...

Two randomized trials found that intra-arterial urokinase and tenecteplase did not improve functional outcomes after mechanical thrombectomy in selected stroke patients. However, these results do ...