Low-pressure balloon angioplasty with adjuvant pharmacological therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke caused by intracranial arterial occlusions

Neuroradiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-340

  Nogueira, Raul G ^a   Schwamm, Lee H ^a   Buonanno, Ferdinando S ^a   Koroshetz, Walter J ^a   Yoo, Albert J ^a   Rabinov, James D ^a   Pryor, Johnny C ^a   Hirsch, Joshua A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Balloon angioplasty; Eptifibatide; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ELASTOMER; EPTIFIBATIDE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN CIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; POSTERIOR INFERIOR CEREBELLAR ARTERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TREATMENT DURATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COHORT STUDIES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; ELASTOMERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESSURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41149101948     PISSN: 00283940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00234-007-0340-z     Document Type: Article

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