Transient ischemic attack after tissue plasminogen activator: Aborted stroke or unnecessary stroke therapy?

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 57-61

  Uchino, Ken ^a,b   Massaro, Lori ^a   Hammer, Maxim D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ischemic stroke; Stroke mimic; Thrombolysis; Transient ischemic attack

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG USE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSIENT ISCHEMIC ATTACK;

AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; ISCHEMIC ATTACK, TRANSIENT; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNNECESSARY PROCEDURES;

EID: 70350699176     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000255975     Document Type: Article

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