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Comment
. 2019 Jul;14(4):575-577.
doi: 10.1177/1558944719850629. Epub 2019 Jun 5.

Comments on "The Use of tPA in the Treatment of Frostbite: A Systematic Review"

James Drinane  1 , Vasanth S Kotamarti  1 , Joseph A Ricci  1
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Comments on "The Use of tPA in the Treatment of Frostbite: A Systematic Review"

James Drinane et al. Hand (N Y). 2019 Jul.
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Declaration of Conflicting Interests: The author(s) declared no potential conflicts of interest with respect to the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.

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Figure 1.
A 71-year-old female with severe frostbite bite of her right foot and hand successfully salvaged with thrombolysis. (a, b) Pre-operative photographs of left and right hand; (c) pre-treatment angiogram of the patient’s right hand showing perfusion deficits to right thumb, index and middle fingers and retrograde filling of the right radial artery; (d) photographs 2-months post tPA treatment without any deficits on examination of the hand; and (e) angiogram of patient’s right hand after 24 hours of intra-arterial tPA infusion revealing restoration of right index and middle fingers, right thumb and radial artery perfusion.
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