Thrombolysis

Study results from Ben-Gurion University in the area of thrombolysis published

Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, April 18th, 2008

" Early failure (within 6 weeks of construction) of prosthetic arteriovenous access (AVA) is traditionally treated by surgical revision rather than endovascular intervention because it is assumed to be related to technical factors related to the surgery. This premise is not evidence based and our results for surgical thrombectomy have been poor," scientists writing in the Journal of Vascular Surgery report.

"Based on our previous experience with angiography and thrombolysis in newly constructed autogenous AVAs, we changed our approach to perform endovascular thrombolysis initially, instead of proceeding directly to surgical revision. We prospectively studied all...

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Source: Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly (2008-04-18)

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