Successful selective intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for embolic stroke in a patient with asplenia syndrome and unrepaired cyanotic congenital heart disease

Kouji Higashi; Takafumi Honda; Shigeru Tateno; Yasutaka Kawasoe; Koichiro Niwa; Shinji Matsuda; Jun-ichi Ono

doi:10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00061.x

Successful selective intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for embolic stroke in a patient with asplenia syndrome and unrepaired cyanotic congenital heart disease

Congenit Heart Dis. 2006 Nov;1(6):343-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00061.x.

Authors

Kouji Higashi¹, Takafumi Honda, Shigeru Tateno, Yasutaka Kawasoe, Koichiro Niwa, Shinji Matsuda, Jun-ichi Ono

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pediatrics, Chiba Cardiovascular Center, Chiba, Japan. [email protected]

PMID: 18377507
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0803.2006.00061.x

Abstract

We report successful selective local intra-arterial thrombolytic therapy for thromboembolic occlusion of right middle cerebral artery in a patient with asplenia syndrome and unrepaired cyanotic congenital heart disease.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Cyanosis / complications
Fibrinolytic Agents / therapeutic use*
Heart Defects, Congenital / complications*
Humans
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / diagnosis
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / drug therapy*
Infarction, Middle Cerebral Artery / etiology
Infusions, Intra-Arterial*
Male
Splenic Diseases / complications
Thrombolytic Therapy*
Tissue Plasminogen Activator / therapeutic use*

Substances

Fibrinolytic Agents
Tissue Plasminogen Activator