Acute ischemic stroke treatment and the occurrence of seizures

Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery

Volumn 112, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 328-331

  De Reuck, Jacques ^a   Van Maele, Georges ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Anticoagulants; Antithrombotics; Cerebral reperfusion; Early onset seizures; Ischemic stroke; Late onset seizures; Recombinant tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; SEIZURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; ANTICONVULSANTS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATORS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; REPERFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEIZURES; STROKE; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950049007     PISSN: 03038467     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clineuro.2010.01.004     Document Type: Article

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