Multimodal recanalization therapy in acute basilar artery occlusion: Long-term functional outcome and quality of life

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 2130-2135

  Ottomeyer, Caroline ^a   Zeller, Judith ^a   Fesl, Gunther ^b   Holtmannspötter, Markus ^b   Opherk, Christian ^a   Bender, Andreas ^a   Dichgans, Martin ^a   Brückmann, Hartmut ^b   Pfefferkorn, Thomas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

basilar artery occlusion; health related quality of life; intravenous thrombolysis; mechanical recanalization

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; TIROFIBAN;

ACUTE BASILAR ARTERY OCCLUSION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CONVALESCENCE; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM SURVIVAL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIMODAL RECANALIZATION THERAPY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL MEDICINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SHORT FORM 36; STROKE; SURVIVOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERMANY; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOVEMENT DISORDERS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REGISTRIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84864287480     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.651281     Document Type: Article

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