Acute basilar artery occlusion in the basilar artery international cooperation study: Does gender matter?

Stroke

Volumn 41, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 2693-2696

  Arnold, Marcel ^a   Fischer, Urs ^a   Compter, Annette ^b   Gralla, Jan ^c   Findling, Oliver ^a   Mattle, Heinrich P ^a   Kappelle, L Jaap ^b   Tanne, David ^d   Algra, Ale ^b   Schonewille, Wouter J ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^e ST ANTONIUS HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acute stroke; basilar artery occlusion; gender; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STENT; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 78149299457     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.594036     Document Type: Article

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