Technology insight: Recanalization with drugs and devices during acute ischemic stroke

Nature Clinical Practice Neurology

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 45-53

  Smith, Wade S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; PLACEBO; PROLYSE; PROUROKINASE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; CATHETER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE; DRUG SAFETY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; HUMAN; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MORBIDITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECANALIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; REVIEW; THROMBECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLECTOMY; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 33846071895     PISSN: 1745834X     EISSN: 17458358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpneuro0372     Document Type: Review

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