Elderly patients are at higher risk for poor outcomes after intra-arterial therapy

Stroke

Volumn 43, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 2356-2361

  Chandra, Ronil V ^a   Leslie Mazwi, Thabele M ^a,b   Oh, Daniel C ^a   Chaudhry, Zeshan A ^a   Mehta, Brijesh P ^b   Rost, Natalia S ^b   Rabinov, James D ^a   Hirsch, Joshua A ^a   González, R Gilberto ^a   Schwamm, Lee H ^b   Yoo, Albert J ^a  

^a Divisions of Interventional ^*  (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

elderly; stroke; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; UROKINASE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOTTING; CEREBRAL INFARCTION SCALE SCORE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DISABILITY; DRUG SAFETY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH STATUS; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERLIPIDEMIA; HYPERTENSION; INTRA ARTERIAL REPERFUSION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PARENCHYMAL HEMATOMA; PATIENT SAFETY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; STROKE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; ENDPOINT DETERMINATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPERFUSION; RISK; STENTS; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84865592284     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.650713     Document Type: Article

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