The dissolution of a blood clot, especially as induced artificially by infusion of an enzyme into the blood.
〔医〕血栓溶解
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By contrast, patients can have thrombolysis administered by medical or paramedical staff at first contact before admission to hospital, and there is strong evidence that early administration improves outcome.
Antithrombotic therapy, antiplatelet therapy, and thrombolysis are beneficial for acute coronary syndrome but harmful for aortic dissection.
Therapeutic thrombolysis for acute myocardial infarction is standard practice, but not so for ischaemic stroke, the ‘brain attack’ equivalent of heart attack.
Very little data are available on the benefits of thrombolysis versus surgical therapy for pulmonary embolism.
Finally, evidence suggests that older and younger patients benefit to a similar degree from cardiovascular interventions ranging from thrombolysis to treatment of hypertension.
Derivatives
thrombolytic
adjective
Medicine
But there's no delay in thrombolytic therapy because the emergency room doctor and his staff can administer it.
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The authors conclude that adenosine as an adjuvant to thrombolytic therapy in patients with acute MI can reduce the infarction size.
Even so, thrombolytic therapy of pulmonary embolism does not dissolve the clot completely as it does with acute coronary thrombosis, and increases the risk of bleeding.
In addition, those using HRT who received thrombolytic therapy did not have an increased risk for hemorrhagic stroke compared to nonusers.
A CT scan is essential in evaluating for a hemorrhagic event, which contraindicates thrombolytic therapy.