MRI detection of early blood-brain barrier disruption: Parenchymal enhancement predicts focal hemorrhagic transformation after thrombolysis

Stroke

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1025-1028

  Hjort, Niels ^a   Wu, Ona ^a,b   Ashkanian, Mahmoud ^a   Sølling, Christine ^a   Mouridsen, Kim ^a   Christensen, Søren ^a   Gyldensted, Carsten ^a   Andersen, Grethe ^a   Østergaard, Leif ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Blood brain barrier; Brain infarction; Imaging; Intracerebral hemorrhage; MRI; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PERFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPERFUSION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING;

AGED; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 41249098129     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.497719     Document Type: Article

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