Thrombolytic therapy for delayed, in-hospital stroke after cardiac surgery

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 1293-1295

  Fukuda, Ikuo ^a   Imazuru, Tomohiro ^b   Osaka, Motoo ^b   Watanabe, Ko ^b   Meguro, Kotoo ^b   Wada, Mitsuyosi ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOPLASTY; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLEEDING; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HEART SURGERY; HUMAN; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; STROKE; SURVIVAL; SYMPTOM; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CARDIAC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM AND THROMBOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 0141785675     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(03)00455-7     Document Type: Article

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