Three-month and long-term outcomes and their predictors in acute basilar artery occlusion treated with intra-arterial thrombolysis

Stroke

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1946-1951

  Jung, Simon ^a   Mono, Marie Luise ^a   Fischer, Urs ^a   Galimanis, Aekaterini ^a   Findling, Oliver ^a   De Marchis, Gian Marco ^a   Weck, Anja ^a   Nedeltchev, Krassen ^a   Colucci, Giuseppe ^a   Mordasini, Pasquale ^a   Brekenfeld, Caspar ^a   El Koussy, Marwan ^a   Gralla, Jan ^a   Schroth, Gerhard ^a   Mattle, Heinrich P ^a   Arnold, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

basilar artery occlusion; intra arterial thrombolysis; outcome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; UROKINASE;

ACUTE BASILAR ARTERY OCCLUSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN EDEMA; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRA ARTERIAL THROMBOLYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SEIZURE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY STENOSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; BASILAR ARTERY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 79959919442     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.110.606038     Document Type: Article

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