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Thrombolysis for Restoration of Patency to Haemodialysis Central Venous Catheters: A Systematic Review

Abstract

Urokinase, previously used to restore patency to thrombosed haemodialysis catheters, is now unavailable in North America.We performed systematic reviews of four questions related to the safety and efficacy of alternative agents for catheter thrombolysis, searching Medline and the Cochrane Controlled Clinical Trials Register.In dialysis patients, large case series have documented that urokinase is safe and effective (>70%% efficacy for catheter …

Authors

Clase CM; Crowther MA; Ingram AJ; Cina` CS

Journal

Journal of Thrombosis and Thrombolysis, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 127–136

Publisher

Springer Nature

Publication Date

April 2001

DOI

10.1023/a:1011272632286

ISSN

0929-5305