Christian Schulze: HI-PEITHO Shows Strong Benefit of Catheter-Based Local Thrombolysis in PE
Christian Schulze, Professor of Medicine at Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena, shared on LinkedIn about a recent article by Kenneth Rosenfield et al, published in NEJM:
”HI-PEITHO presented by Prof.Dr. Stavros Konstantinides at ACC26 and published in the NEJM Group showing strong benefit of catheter-based local thrombolysis in high-intermediate risk patients with pulmonary embolism.
No increase in bleeding events.
Proud to have established this strategy with our team at at Jena University Hospital.”
Title: Ultrasound-Facilitated, Catheter-Directed Fibrinolysis for Acute Pulmonary Embolism
Authors: Kenneth Rosenfield, Frederikus Klok, Gregory Piazza, Andrew Sharp, Fionnuala Ní Áinle, Michael Jaff, Stefano Barco, Samuel Goldhaber, Nils Kucher, Irene Lang, Irene Schmidtmann, Keith Sterling, Aleksander Araszkiewicz, Vishal Arora, Rafael Cires-Drouet, John Coghlan, Lukas Hobohm, Wulf Ito, Kurt Jacobson, Christoph Kaiser, Grzegorz Kopec, Kristin Marx, Samuel McElwee, Nicolas Meneveau, Peter Monteleone, Jose Montero-Cabezas, Christoph Olivier, John Park, Marek Roik, Rahul Sakhuja, Andi Tego, Markus Theurl, Gautam Visveswaran, Jan Vos, Michael Young, Federico Asch, Stavros Konstantinides for the HI-PEITHO Investigators
Read the Full Article on NEJM

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