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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Brody, T. M., J. Larner, K. P. Minneman, and H. C. Neu. Human Pharmacology: Molecular to Clinical, 2nd ed. St. Louis: Mosby Year-Book, 1995.
Karch, A. M. Lippincott's Nursing Drug Guide. Springhouse,...
PA: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2003.
Pelletier, Kenneth R., MD. The Best Alternative Medicine, Part I, Chapter 6, "Western Herbal Medicine." New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Reynolds, J. E. F., ed. Martindale: The Extra Pharmacopoeia, 31st ed. London, UK: The Pharmaceutical Press, 1996.
Townsend, C. M., ed. Sabiston Textbook of Surgery, 16th ed. Philadelphia, PA: W. B. Saunders, 2001.
PERIODICALS
"Acute Myocardial Infarction: Clot-Busting Therapy May Reduce Death in Elderly Heart Attack Patients."Heart Disease Weekly May 18, 2003.
Dundar, Y., R. Hill, R. Dickson, and T. Walley. "Comparative Efficacy of Thrombolytics in Acute Myocardial Infarction: A Systematic Review."QJM 96 (February 2003): 103-113.
Marsh, P. "Clot-Bust' Drug Right On Target."Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd, February 6, 2003.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP). 7272 Wisconsin Avenue, Bethesda, MD 20814. (301) 657-3000.
United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). 5600 Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857-0001. (888) INFO-FDA.
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Thrombolytic therapy is a treatment used to break up dangerous clots inside your blood vessels. To perform this treatment, your physician injects clot-dissolving medications into a blood vessel. In some cases, the medications flow through your bloodstream to the clot. In other cases, your physician guides a long, thin tube, called a catheter, through your blood vessels to the area of the clot. Depending on the circumstances, the tip of the catheter may carry special attachments that break up clots. The catheter then delivers medications or mechanically breaks up the clot.
Thrombolytic therapy commonly is used to treat an ischemic stroke, which is another name for a clot in a blood vessel in your brain. It can also be used to treat clots in:
A lung artery, called a pulmonary embolism;
The deep veins of your leg, called deep vein thrombosis (DVT);
Your heart, which may cause a heart attack;
An artery elsewhere in your body, such as in an arm or leg artery; or
A bypass graft or dialysis catheter that has become blocked.
From http://www.vascularweb.org/patients/NorthPoint/Thrombolytic_Therapy.html
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