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. 2025 Jul 7;29(1):284.
doi: 10.1186/s13054-025-05465-w.

Prehospital thrombolytic treatment of high-risk acute pulmonary embolism

Hugo Lanz #  1 , Leonhard Binzenhöfer #  1 , Tom Verbelen  2   3 , Andrea Stadlbauer  4 , Daniele Camboni  4 , Sebastian Zimmer  5 , Georg Nickenig  5 , Holger Thiele #  6 , Enzo Lüsebrink #  7 ; High-risk Investigator Group
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Prehospital thrombolytic treatment of high-risk acute pulmonary embolism

Hugo Lanz et al. Crit Care. .
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Declarations. Ethics approval and consent to participate: This study was conducted in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by the ethics committee at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) Munich (IRB 22–0193). Consent for publication: Not applicable. Competing interests: The authors declare no competing interests.

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Overview of treatment approaches. PCDT, percutaneous catheter-directed treatment; ST, surgical thrombectomy; SYS, systemic thrombolysis; VA-ECMO, veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
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