Acute basilar artery occlusion treated with combined intravenous abciximab and intra-arterial tissue plasminogen activator: Report of 3 cases

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1424-1427

  Eckert, Bernd ^a   Koch, Christoph ^a   Thomalla, Götz ^a   Roether, Joachim ^a   Zeumer, Herrmann ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antibodies, monoclonal; Basilar artery; Fibrinolysis; Stroke, ischemic; Thrombolytic therapy; Vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; ANTICOAGULANTS; BASILAR ARTERY; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR DISORDERS; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN FAB FRAGMENTS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET GLYCOPROTEIN GPIIB-IIIA COMPLEX; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 0036093610     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000014247.70674.7F     Document Type: Article

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