Drop of PT Quick percent value is associated with both symptomatic and asymptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in patients treated with rt-PA for acute ischemic stroke

Thrombosis Research

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-66

  Alonso, A ^a   Dempfle, C E ^a   Szabo, K ^a   Zohsel, K ^a   Hennerici, M G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOGEN; PROTHROMBIN;

ACUTE BRAIN DISEASE; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FIBRINOGEN BLOOD LEVEL; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REFERENCE VALUE; THROMBOCYTE COUNT;

EID: 78650509907     PISSN: 00493848     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.thromres.2010.04.018     Document Type: Letter

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