Role of CT angiography in thrombolysis decision-making for patients with presumed seizure at stroke onset

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 915-917

  Sylaja, P N ^a   Dzialowski, Imanuel ^a   Krol, Andrea ^a   Roy, Jayanta ^b   Federico, Paolo ^a   Demchuk, Andrew M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b Advance Medicare and Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Todd's paralysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN TOMOGRAPHY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PARALYSIS; POSTICTAL PARALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEIZURE; STROKE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATHOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARALYSIS; SEIZURES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 33645088973     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000202678.86234.84     Document Type: Article

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