Intravenous versus combined (intravenous and intra-arterial) thrombolysis in acute ischemic stroke: A transcranial color-coded duplex sonography - Guided pilot study

Stroke

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1805-1809

  Sekoranja, Lucka ^a   Loulidi, Jaouad ^a   Yilmaz, Hasan ^a   Lovblad, Karl ^a   Temperli, Philippe ^a   Comelli, Mario ^b   Sztajzel, Roman F ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

^c Neurosonology Unit   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Stroke; Thrombolysis; Transcranial; Ultrasonography

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; SONOVUE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INJECTION SITE REACTION; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SYMPTOM; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ACUTE DISEASE; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOSPITALIZATION; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; INTRAARTERIAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; RADIOGRAPHY; REPERFUSION;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; PILOT PROJECTS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; REPERFUSION; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 33745952875     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.STR.0000227358.37094.46     Document Type: Article

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