Ultrasound-Enhanced Thrombolysis in Acute Ischemic Stroke: Potential, Failures, and Safety

Neurotherapeutics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 420-427

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

microspheres; stroke; thrombolysis; Tissue plasminogen activator; transcranial Doppler

Indexed keywords

LIPID; MICROSPHERE; PERFLUTREN; PLACEBO; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CATHETER; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; COLOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONVALESCENCE; DEVICE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULSE WAVE; RECANALIZATION; RISK; SAFETY; ULTRASOUND;

ANIMALS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL TRIALS; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ULTRASONIC THERAPY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 34250730176     PISSN: 19337213     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nurt.2007.05.012     Document Type: Article

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