Hyperoxia potentiated sonothrombolysis as a method of acute ischemic stroke therapy

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 59-65

  Topcuoglu, Mehmet Akif ^a   Saka, Esen ^a   Onal, Mehmet Zulkuf ^a  

^a AKDENIZ UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; OXYGEN;

ARTERIAL OXYGEN TENSION; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPEROXIA; HYPOTHESIS; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REPERFUSION; SAFETY; STROKE; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

ARTERIES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; HUMANS; OXYGEN; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 27744529918     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.07.006     Document Type: Article

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