Current status of endovascular stroke treatment

Circulation

Volumn 123, Issue 22, 2011, Pages 2591-2601

  Meyers, Philip M ^a   Schumacher, H Christian ^b   Connolly, E Sander ^a   Heyer, Eric J ^a   Gray, William A ^a   Higashida, Randall T ^c  

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

^b LEHIGH VALLEY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

cerebral revascularization; cerebrovascular accident; fibrinolysis; stroke, acute; thrombectomy; thrombolytic therapy

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOGEN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; OXYGEN; PROUROKINASE;

ACUTE ISCHEMIC STROKE; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL METABOLIC RATE OF OXYGEN; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DEATH; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY PHYSICIAN; EMERGENCY TREATMENT; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FIBRINOLYSIS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEPARINIZATION; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE; INTERVENTIONAL CARDIOVASCULAR PROCEDURE; MEDICAL ETHICS; NEUROIMAGING; NEURORADIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REGIONALIZATION; REVASCULARIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STENT; STENT RETRIEVER THROMBECTOMY; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT; SUCTION THROMBECTOMY; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL THROMBECTOMY; TELEMEDICINE;

ANIMALS; CAROTID STENOSIS; ENDARTERECTOMY, CAROTID; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79958816964     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: 15244539     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.971564     Document Type: Article

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