Association of pretreatment ASPECTS scores with tPA-induced arterial recanalization in acute middle cerebral artery occlusion

Journal of Neuroimaging

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 56-61

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,b,f   Saqqur, Maher ^c   Sharma, Vijay K ^a,d   Lao, Annabelle Y ^a   Hoover, Steven L ^a   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a,e  

^a BARROW NEUROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS   (Philippines)

^f NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

ASPECTS; Outcome; Recanalization; Stroke; tPA

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ALBERTA STROKE PROGRAM EARLY CT SCORE; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049051906     PISSN: 10512284     EISSN: 15526569     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1552-6569.2007.00169.x     Document Type: Article

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