Keep it simple? Half-dose systemic thrombolysis or catheter-directed thrombolysis for pulmonary embolism

Rim Halaby¹, Jay Giri^{1

2}

Affiliations

¹ 1 Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² 2 Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes Quality & Evaluative Research Center, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Editorial

Rim Halaby et al. Vasc Med. 2019 Apr.

. 2019 Apr;24(2):110-111.

doi: 10.1177/1358863X18824653. Epub 2019 Mar 5.

Rim Halaby¹, Jay Giri^{1

2}

¹ 1 Cardiovascular Medicine Division, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
² 2 Penn Cardiovascular Outcomes Quality & Evaluative Research Center, Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: catheter-directed thrombolysis; pulmonary embolism (PE); systemic thrombolysis.

Comment on

Moderate pulmonary embolism treated with thrombolysis (from the "MOPETT" Trial).
Sharifi M, Bay C, Skrocki L, Rahimi F, Mehdipour M; “MOPETT” Investigators. Sharifi M, et al. Am J Cardiol. 2013 Jan 15;111(2):273-7. doi: 10.1016/j.amjcard.2012.09.027. Epub 2012 Oct 24. Am J Cardiol. 2013. PMID: 23102885 Clinical Trial.