EU-funded treatment study: WAKE-UP: A randomized, placebo-controlled MRI-based trial of thrombolysis in wake-up stroke;EU-geförderte Therapiestudie WAKE-UP: Eine randomisierte, placebokontrollierte, MRT-basierte Thrombolysestudie bei "wake-up stroke"

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Volumn 83, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1241-1251

  Thomalla, G ^a   Ebinger, M ^b   Fiehler, J ^a   Fiebach, J B ^b   Endres, M ^b   Gerloff, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acute ischemic stroke; Clinical trials; Diffusion weighted imaging (DWI); Fluid attenuated inversion recovery imaging (FLAIR); Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

ARTICLE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FLUID ATTENUATED INVERSION RECOVERY IMAGING; HUMAN; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; EUROPE; EUROPEAN UNION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLACEBO EFFECT; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84867999887     PISSN: 00282804     EISSN: 14330407     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00115-012-3532-7     Document Type: Article

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