Hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign on admission CT scan - Prognostic significance for ischaemic stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis in the safe implementation of thrombolysis in stroke international stroke thrombolysis register

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 51-59

  Kharitonova, Tatiana ^a   Ahmed, Niaz ^a   Thorén, Magnus ^a   Wardlaw, Joanna M ^a   Von Kummer, Rüdiger ^a   Glahn, Joerg ^a   Wahlgren, Nils ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Haemorrhage; Hyperdense middle cerebral artery sign; Stroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MORTALITY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE PATIENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTERNET; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 56149104514     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000172634     Document Type: Article

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