Timing of thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke: "timing is everything" or "everyone is different"

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1268, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-144

  Grotta, James ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Imaging; Ischemic stroke; Thrombolysis; Time

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN BLOOD FLOW; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONVALESCENCE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFICACY; EMERGENCY CARE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RECANALIZATION; REPERFUSION; STROKE; TELEMEDICINE; TIME;

EID: 84866551677     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2012.06690.x     Document Type: Article

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