Can restoring incomplete microcirculatory reperfusion improve stroke outcome after thrombolysis

Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2091-2099

  Dalkara, Turgay ^a   Arsava, Ethem Murat ^a  

^a HACETTEPE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

brain ischemia; capillaries; microcirculation; no reflow; reperfusion; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN CAPILLARY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN MICROCIRCULATION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; PERICYTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; REPERFUSION; REVIEW; VASCULAR PATENCY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT, ACTIVE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CAPILLARIES; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; DISEASE-FREE SURVIVAL; HUMANS; MICROCIRCULATION; OXYGEN; REPERFUSION; STROKE; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

EID: 84870617639     PISSN: 0271678X     EISSN: 15597016     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/jcbfm.2012.139     Document Type: Review

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