title: Right-sided cardiac thromboembolism and its successful treatment with streptokinase: case report.
abstract: A sixty-eight-year-old woman with a clinical diagnosis of pulmonary embolism and large right-heart embolus on echocardiography is presented. Because of the critical clinical condition of the patient and the inability to perform surgical intervention, thrombolytic treatment (streptokinase) was administered. The patient's condition improved, the right-heart embolus disappeared, and on the perfusion lung scan there was only one small perfusion defect in the right lung. The authors consider thrombolysis to be appropriate treatment for right-heart thromboembolism whenever surgical embolectomy is not possible.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Clinical Hospital Center Rijeka Croatia, Yugoslavia.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Matana
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Mavrić
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fischer
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006331:Heart Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011655:Pulmonary Embolism / Q000150:complications; D013300:Streptokinase / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013923:Thromboembolism / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy
chemical_list: D013300:Streptokinase