Malignant profile detected by CT angiographic information predicts poor prognosis despite thrombolysis within three hours from symptom onset

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 584-591

  Puetz, Volker ^a,b   Dzialowski, Imanuel ^a,b   Hill, Michael D ^b   Steffenhagen, Nikolai ^b   Coutts, Shelagh B ^b   O'Reilly, Christine ^b   Demchuk, Andrew M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acute stroke; CT angiography; Functional outcome; Stroke; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERTENSION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RANKIN SCALE; RISK FACTOR; STROKE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INTRACRANIAL THROMBOSIS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77950626109     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000311079     Document Type: Article

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