Thrombosis

Ultrasound Can Help Dissolve Thrombi In Presence of Microbubbles

Published in Blood Weekly, January 31st, 2002

by Michael Greer, senior medical writer - Ultrasound can be used to improve blood flow through thrombotically occluded vessels, according to researchers in the United States.

Dr. Thomas R. Porter and colleagues at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha assessed the effectiveness of ultrasound in dissolving pathological blood clots. The results of their study were published in the December 2001 issue of the Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine.

Low-frequency ultrasound after microbubble infusions may be a feasible adjuvant to antithrombotic drugs, Porter and coauthors said.

The researchers compared the efficacy of...

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