Early dramatic recovery during intravenous tissue plasminogen activator infusion: Clinical pattern and outcome in acute middle cerebral artery stroke

Stroke

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1301-1307

  Felberg, Robert A ^a,b   Okon, Nicholas J ^a,b   El Mitwalli, Ashraf ^a,b   Burgin, W Scott ^a,b   Grotta, James C ^a,b   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b OCHSNER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Recovery of function; Thrombolytic therapy; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 0036098256     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000015556.48283.74     Document Type: Article

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