Recurrent artery-to-artery embolism during intravenous t-PA therapy for acute ischemic stroke

Neurocritical Care

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 54-56

  Anderson, Christopher D ^a   Bergman, Deborah L ^a   Bernstein, Richard A ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Artery to artery embolism; Recurrent embolism; Tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CERVICAL SPINE; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAPHORESIS; DRUG INFUSION; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; GAZE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMIPARESIS; HUMAN; LETHARGY; MALE; NYSTAGMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SIDE EFFECT; THROMBUS; VERTEBRAL ARTERY; VOMITING;

CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL EMBOLISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 24644517992     PISSN: 15416933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1385/Neurocrit.Care2005;3:54-56     Document Type: Article

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