Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature

INTRODUCTION: Stroke is a medical emergency in neurology, and is one of the leading causes of death nowadays. At a recent time, a therapeutic method used in adequate conditions is thrombolysis, a treatment of an emerging clot in the brain vascular system by alteplase. The application of alteplase al...

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Autores principales: Aleksic-Shihabi, Anka, Jadrijevic, Eni, Milekic, Nina, Bulicic, Ana Repic, Titlic, Marina, Suljic, Enra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26980937
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.69-71
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author Aleksic-Shihabi, Anka
Jadrijevic, Eni
Milekic, Nina
Bulicic, Ana Repic
Titlic, Marina
Suljic, Enra
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description INTRODUCTION: Stroke is a medical emergency in neurology, and is one of the leading causes of death nowadays. At a recent time, a therapeutic method used in adequate conditions is thrombolysis, a treatment of an emerging clot in the brain vascular system by alteplase. The application of alteplase also has a high risk of life threatening conditions. CASE REPORT: This is a brief report of a case with thrombolysis complication which manifested as a spleen rupture.
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spelling pubmed-47793512016-03-15 Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature Aleksic-Shihabi, Anka Jadrijevic, Eni Milekic, Nina Bulicic, Ana Repic Titlic, Marina Suljic, Enra Med Arch Case Report INTRODUCTION: Stroke is a medical emergency in neurology, and is one of the leading causes of death nowadays. At a recent time, a therapeutic method used in adequate conditions is thrombolysis, a treatment of an emerging clot in the brain vascular system by alteplase. The application of alteplase also has a high risk of life threatening conditions. CASE REPORT: This is a brief report of a case with thrombolysis complication which manifested as a spleen rupture. AVICENA, d.o.o., Sarajevo 2016-02 2016-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4779351/ /pubmed/26980937 http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.69-71 Text en Copyright: © Anka Aleksic-Shihabi, Eni Jadrijevic, Nina Milekic, Ana Repic Bulicic, Marina Titlic, Enra Suljic http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Titlic, Marina
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Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title_fullStr Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title_short Spontaneous Splenic Rupture Following Intravenous Thrombolysis with Alteplase Applied as Stroke Therapy – Case Report and Review of Literature
title_sort spontaneous splenic rupture following intravenous thrombolysis with alteplase applied as stroke therapy – case report and review of literature
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4779351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26980937
http://dx.doi.org/10.5455/medarh.2016.70.69-71
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