Randomised double-blind placebo-controlled trial of thrombolytic therapy with intravenous alteplase in acute ischaemic stroke (ECASS II)

Lancet

Volumn 352, Issue 9136, 1998, Pages 1245-1251

  Hacke, Werner ^a   Kaste, Markku ^b   Fieschi, Cesare ^b   Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^b   Davalos, Antoni ^b   Meier, Dieter ^b   Larrue, Vincent ^b   Bluhmki, Erich ^b   Davis, Stephen ^b   Donnan, Geoffrey ^b   Schneider, Dietmar ^b   Diez Tejedor, Exuperio ^b   Trouillas, Paul ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; PLACEBO;

AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL SYMPTOM; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEPHROTOXICITY; NEUROTOXICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032541845     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(98)08020-9     Document Type: Article

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