Real-time validation of transcranial doppler criteria in assessing recanalization during intra-arterial procedures for acute ischemic stroke an international, multicenter study

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 394-400

  Tsivgoulis, Georgios ^a,b,c   Ribo, Marc ^a,d   Rubiera, Marta ^d   Vasdekis, Spyros N ^b   Barlinn, Kristian ^a   Athanasiadis, Dimitrios ^b   Shahripour, Reza Bavarsad ^a   Giannopoulos, Sotirios ^e   Stamboulis, Elefterios ^b   Harrigan, Mark R ^f   Molina, Carlos A ^d   Alexandrov, Andrei V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^c ST ANNE S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Czech Republic)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^e UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

angiography; recanalization; stroke; transcranial Doppler; ultrasonics

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERIAL STENT; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN PERFUSION; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLOW KINETICS; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERRATER RELIABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; PATIENT MONITORING; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECANALIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBUS ASPIRATION; TRANSCRANIAL DOPPLER; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ADULT; AGED; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INTERNATIONALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPERFUSION; STROKE; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, TRANSCRANIAL;

EID: 84872934502     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.675074     Document Type: Article

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