Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure
fibrinolytic therapy
Subclass of:
Pharmacotherapy
Definitions related to thrombolytic therapy:
  • Any pharmacologic intervention used to destroy or dissolve a clot in a blood vessel or graft.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (fibrinolytic therapy) Use of infusions of fibrinolytic agents to destroy or dissolve thrombi in blood vessels or in bypass grafts.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Thrombosis is an important part of the normal hemostatic response that limits hemorrhage caused by microscopic or macroscopic vascular injury. Physiologic thrombosis is counterbalanced by intrinsic antithrombotic properties and fibrinolysis.
    Medscape
    WebMD, 2019
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