Intravenous thrombolysis with rt-PA in acute ischemic stroke patients aged older than 80 years in Italy

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 129-135

  Toni, Danilo ^a   Lorenzano, Svetlana ^a   Agnelli, Giancarlo ^b   Guidetti, Donata ^c   Orlandi, Giovanni ^d   Semplicini, Andrea ^e   Toso, Vito ^f   Caso, Valeria ^b   Malferrari, Giovanni ^c   Fanucchi, Simona ^d   Bartolomei, Luigi ^f   Prencipe, Massimiliano ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^c S MARIA NUOVA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^f Hospital of Vicenza   (Italy)

Author keywords

Elderly; Intravenous thrombolysis; Ischemic stroke; rt PA

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMATOMA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; SCORING SYSTEM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; ITALY; MIDDLE AGED; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 39549115214     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000112323     Document Type: Article

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