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Catheter-directed Therapy Offers Better Hope for Massive Pulmonary Embolism

November 27, 2009

The systemic infusion of thrombolytic agents, used earlier as a standard medical therapy for treating massive pulmonary embolism (PE), carries an unacceptable hemorrhagic risk. Now, the results of a recent systemic review and meta-analysis voices catheter-directed therapy (CDT) as a life-saving alternative for treating acute massive PE. The findings of this analysis are published in the latest issue of the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology.

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