Current recommendations for endovascular interventions in the treatment of ischemic stroke

Current Atherosclerosis Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 244-250

  Appelboom, Geoffrey ^a   Strozyk, Dorothea ^a   Meyers, Philip M ^a   Higashida, Randall T ^b  

^a College of Physicians and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridgi; Endovascular therapy; Intraarterial fibrinolysis; Ischemic stroke; Mechanical thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; PLACEBO; SARUPLASE; UROKINASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEVICE THERAPY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DOSE COMPARISON; DRUG DOSE REDUCTION; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LOW DRUG DOSE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; RECANALIZATION; REVIEW; STENT; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; ADULT; ARTICLE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION; REPERFUSION; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY;

ADULT; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; PATIENT SELECTION; REPERFUSION; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

EID: 77955947428     PISSN: 15233804     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11883-010-0115-6     Document Type: Review

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