Safety and clinical outcome of thrombolysis in ischaemic stroke using a perfusion CT mismatch between 3 and 6 hours

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2011, Pages

  Sztriha, Laszlo K ^a   Manawadu, Dulka ^a   Jarosz, Jozef ^b   Keep, Jeff ^b   Kalra, Lalit ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING S COLLEGE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; RANKIN SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT PLANNING; TREATMENT RESPONSE; FACTUAL DATABASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY; SAFETY; SCINTIGRAPHY; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; PERFUSION IMAGING; SAFETY; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053897405     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0025796     Document Type: Article

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