Systemic thrombolysis in patients with acute ischemic stroke and internal carotid artery occlusion: The ICARO study

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 125-130

  Paciaroni, Maurizio ^a   Balucani, Clotilde ^a,b,c   Agnelli, Giancarlo ^a   Caso, Valeria ^a   Silvestrelli, Giorgio ^d   Grotta, James C ^c   Demchuk, Andrew M ^e   Sohn, Sung Il ^f   Orlandi, Giovanni ^g   Leys, Didier ^h   Pezzini, Alessandro ⁱ   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^b   Silvestrini, Mauro ^j   Fofi, Luisa ^ab   Barlinn, Kristian ^l   Inzitari, Domenico ^m   Ferrarese, Carlo ⁿ   Tassi, Rossana ^o   Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^p   Consoli, Domenico ^q   Baldi, Antonio ^r   Bovi, Paolo ^s   Luda, Emilio ^t   Galletti, Giampiero ^u   Invernizzi, Paolo ^v   Delodovici, Maria Luisa ^w   Corea, Francesco ^x   Del Sette, Massimo ^y   Monaco, Serena ^z   Marcheselli, Simona ^aa   Alberti, Andrea ^a   Venti, Michele ^a   Acciarresi, Monica ^a   D'Amore, Cataldo ^a   MacEllari, Federica ^a   Lanari, Alessia ^d   Previdi, Paolo ^d   Gonzales, Nicole R ^c   Pandurengan, Renganayaki K ^c   Vahidy, Farhaan S ^c   Sline, Melvin ^c   Bal, Simerpreet S ^e   Chiti, Alberto ^g   Gialdini, Gino ^g   Dumont, Frederic ^h   Cordonnier, Charlotte ^h   Debette, Stéphanie ^h   Padovani, Alessandro ⁱ   Cerqua, Raffaella ^j   Bodechtel, Ulf ^l   Kepplinger, Jessica ^l   Nesi, Mascia ^m   Nencini, Patrizia ^m   Beretta, Simone ⁿ   Trentini, Claudia ⁿ   Martini, Giuseppe ^o   Piperidou, Charitomeni ^p   Heliopoulos, Ioannis ^p   D'Anna, Sebastiano ^r   Cappellari, Manuel ^s   Donati, Edoardo ^v   Bono, Giorgio ^w   Traverso, Elisabetta ^y   Toni, Danilo ^k   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^d CARLO POMA HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^f Keimyung University   (South Korea)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PISA   (Italy)

^h UNIV LILLE   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^j UNIVERSITÀ POLITECNICA DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

^k SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^l UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^m UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

ⁿ SAN GERARDO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^o UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF SIENA   (Italy)

^p DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^q Stroke Unit   (Italy)

^r Ospedale di Portogruaro   (Italy)

^s UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF VERONA   (Italy)

^t Rivoli Hospital   (Italy)

^u MORGAGNI PIERANTONI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^v Poliambulanza Hospital   (Italy)

^w UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^x MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^y SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^z Ospedale Civile Di Vicenza   (Italy)

^aa HUMANITAS CLINICAL AND RESEARCH CENTER   (Italy)

^ab IRCCS SAN RAFFAELE PISANA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

acute stroke; carotid occlusion; outcome; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEATH; DISABILITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG FATALITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAROTID ARTERY, INTERNAL; CAROTID STENOSIS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84855344990     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.630624     Document Type: Article

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