Ultrasound-Enhanced Thrombolysis for Acute Ischemic Stroke: Phase I. Findings of the CLOTBUST Trial

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 113-117

  Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^b   Burgin, W Scott ^b   Robinson, David J ^b   Grotta, James C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Outcomes; Stroke; TPA; Transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PLACEBO; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEURORADIOLOGY; PHASE 2 CLINICAL TRIAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD FLOW VELOCITY; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PILOT PROJECTS; POINT-OF-CARE SYSTEMS; RESEARCH DESIGN; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 1642279961     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1051228403261462     Document Type: Article

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