Thrombolytic treatment given at the and of the first week of stroke due to pulmonary embolism in a patient with middlee cerebral artery infarction
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Kemal Balci; Zeynep Bebek; Çetin Kürşad Akpınar; Hakan Doğru
- Source
- Türk Beyin Damar Hastalıkları Dergisi, Vol 20, Iss 2, Pp 62-64 (2014)
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Thrombolytic treatment
Ischemic stroke
pulmonary embolism
business.industry
Cerebral arteries
lcsh:R
Infarction
lcsh:Medicine
medicine.disease
Pulmonary embolism
Internal medicine
medicine
Cardiology
thrombolytic treatment
cardiovascular diseases
business
Stroke
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 2146-9113
Thrombolytic treatment is the most effective and commonly used method into firs 4,5 hours of acute ischemic stroke and massive pulmonary embolism. It is known that thrombolytic treatment is definitely contraindicated in cases who had an ischemic stroke into last three months. In this paper, it was reported that thrombolytic treatment had given for pulmonary embolism which developed one week after stroke in a case with stroke due to middle cerebral artery occlusion. Here, we presented a case which is rarely seen and required difficulty in deciding.