Responses to acute stroke: Beyond urgent imaging and systemic thrombolysis, where to now?

Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 98-100

  Dawson, J ^a   Quinn, T J ^a  

^a WESTERN INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acute stroke unit; Clot retrieval; Hypothermia; Stroke; Thrombolysis; Tissue plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; PROUROKINASE; TENECTEPLASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; UROKINASE;

AGED; APHASIA; ARTERY PERFUSION; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN RADIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG TREATMENT FAILURE; EDITORIAL; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HOMONYMOUS HEMIANOPIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INDUCED HYPOTHERMIA; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; MINIMALLY INVASIVE SURGERY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT SELECTION; REPEAT PROCEDURE; REPERFUSION; STEREOTAXIC SURGERY; TREATMENT DURATION; WEAKNESS;

EID: 84864251282     PISSN: 14782715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4997/jrcpe.2012.201     Document Type: Editorial

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