Avoiding "pseudo-Reversibility" of CT-CBV infarct core lesions in acute stroke patients after thrombolytic therapy: The need for algorithmically "delay-Corrected" CT perfusion map postprocessing software

Stroke

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2875-2878

  Schaefer, Pamela W ^a   Mui, Kit ^a   Kamalian, Shahmir ^a   Nogueira, Raul G ^a   Gonzalez, R Gilberto ^a   Lev, Michael H ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

CT perfusion; Stroke management

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; IOPAMIDOL;

ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BRAIN INFARCTION SIZE; BRAIN PERFUSION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; FOLLOW UP; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SOFTWARE; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 68749110793     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.547679     Document Type: Article

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