Safety and efficacy of endovascular thrombectomy in patients with abnormal hemostasis pooled analysis of the MERCI and multi MERCI trials

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 516-522

  Nogueira, Raul G ^a   Smith, Wade S ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; Anticoagulation; Endovascular treatment; Interventional neuroradiology; Intracerebral hemorrhage; Intracranial hemorrhage; Thrombectomy; Thrombocytopenia; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; WARFARIN;

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS GRAFT; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GENDER; HEALTH STATUS; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERCUTANEOUS THROMBECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; REVASCULARIZATION; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MIDDLE AGED; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEOVASCULARIZATION (PATHOLOGY); PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HEMOSTATIC DISORDERS; HUMANS; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOVASCULARIZATION, PATHOLOGIC; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PLATELET COUNT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 60549085917     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.108.525089     Document Type: Article

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