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Objective To evaluate the efficacy and safety of intermittent use of low-dose urokinase in the treatment of pulmonary embolism. Methods Forty-two patients with acute pulmonary embolism were divided into UK group with UK 10 000 U/(kg·d),7 days and rt-PA group with rt-PA 50 mg/2 h randomly. The efficacy was determined by the improvement of right heart dysfunction and perfusion defect 8 d and 14 d after the treatment. The bleeding incidence, death rate and PE recurrence were also evaluated. Results Differences of right heart dysfunction and perfusion defect between UK group and rt-PA group indicated no statistical significance (P >0.05).The rate of bleeding in UK group was lower than that of rt-PA group. Conclution The intermittent use of low-dose urokinase in the treatment of pulmonary embolism exhibits similar efficacy as rt-PA.
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For some cyanotic children with deficient pulmonary blood flow, the Blalock-Taussig shunt is a life-saving or temporizing form of palhation. Extensive experience has been gathered, and mortality and morbidity as well as the incidence of shunt stenosis and thrombosis have significantly decreased. However, even nowadays, the most frequently encountered complication excluding mortality in early postoperative course is occlusion of the shunt. We experienced a case of Blalock-Taussig shunt occlusion with thrombus. We diagnosed him as ventricular septal defect with pulmonary atresia by echocardiography and performed a right classic Blalock-Taussig shunt at 7th day of age, Oxygen saturation was gradually decreased since the 6th day postoperative. He was diagnosed as thrombosis of shunt at 12th day postoperative by cardiac angiography, and then was treated with a local low-dose urokinase infusion(1,000U/kg/hr) through Cobra catheter(Cook. In. Co.). After 21 hours, thrombolysis of shunts was comfirmed. We stopped the urokinase and medicated low-dose aspirin(5mg/kg/day). After the eighth day, shunt flow by echocardiography was patent.
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Child , Humans , Infant, Newborn , Angiography , Constriction, Pathologic , Echocardiography , Elapidae , Heart Septal Defects, Ventricular , Incidence , Mortality , Oxygen , Pulmonary Atresia , Thrombosis , Urokinase-Type Plasminogen ActivatorABSTRACT
For some cyanotic children with deficient pulmonary blood flow, the Blalock-Taussig shunt is a life-saving or temporizing form of palhation. Extensive experience has been gathered, and mortality and morbidity as well as the incidence of shunt stenosis and thrombosis have significantly decreased. However, even nowadays, the most frequently encountered complication excluding mortality in early postoperative course is occlusion of the shunt. We experienced a case of Blalock-Taussig shunt occlusion with thrombus. We diagnosed him as ventricular septal defect with pulmonary atresia by echocardiography and performed a right classic Blalock-Taussig shunt at 7th day of age, Oxygen saturation was gradually decreased since the 6th day postoperative. He was diagnosed as thrombosis of shunt at 12th day postoperative by cardiac angiography, and then was treated with a local low-dose urokinase infusion(1,000U/kg/hr) through Cobra catheter(Cook. In. Co.). After 21 hours, thrombolysis of shunts was comfirmed. We stopped the urokinase and medicated low-dose aspirin(5mg/kg/day). After the eighth day, shunt flow by echocardiography was patent.