High rate of complete recanalization and dramatic clinical recovery during tPA infusion when continuously monitored with 2-MHz transcranial Doppler monitoring

Stroke

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 610-614

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^b   Felberg, Robert A ^b   Christou, Ioannis ^b   Barber, Philip A ^b   Burgin, W Scott ^b   Malkoff, Marc ^b   Wojner, Anne W ^b   Grotta, James C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Acute; Doppler; Outcome; Stroke; Thrombolysis; Transcranial; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0034099863     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.31.3.610     Document Type: Article

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