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Rapid Response to Streptokinase

Philip O. Katz, MD; Barry T. Hackshaw, MD; Charles F. Barish, MD; Bayard L. Powell, MD

Arch Intern Med. 1983;143(5):1050-1052.

Abstract
• Venous thrombosis, resulting in superior vena cava syndrome, developed in a patient with two permanent transvenous pacemaker wires. Therapy with streptokinase resulted in prompt relief of the obstruction, with no complications. In properly selected patients, streptokinase may be the treatment of choice for this potentially life-threatening problem.

(Arch Intern Med 1983;143:1050-1052)

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital—Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC.

Footnotes
Accepted for publication Oct 28,1982.

Reprint requests to the Department of Medicine, North Carolina Baptist Hospital—Bowman Gray School of Medicine, 300 S Hawthorne Rd, Winston-Salem, NC 27103 (Dr Katz).

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