Validity of HAT score for predicting symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage in acute stroke patients with proximal occlusions: Data from randomized trials of sonothrombolysis

Cerebrovascular Diseases

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 471-476

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,e   Saqqur, Maher ^c   Barreto, Andrew ^b   Demchuk, Andrew M ^d   Ribo, Marc ^g   Rubiera, Marta ^g   Sharma, Vijay K ^h   Stamboulis, Elefterios ^f   Schellinger, Peter D ⁱ   Molina, Carlos A ^g   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^e DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^g HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^h NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Singapore)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Occlusion; Stroke; Symptomatic intracranial hemorrhage; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ACUTE DISEASE; ACUTE STROKE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS INFUSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXTERNAL VALIDITY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMORRHAGE AFTER THROMBOLYSIS SCORE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL HISTORY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONIC THERAPY;

EID: 79952104387     PISSN: 10159770     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324387     Document Type: Article

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