DWI-ASPECTS as a predictor of dramatic recovery after intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator administration in patients with middle cerebral artery occlusion

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 534-537

  Aoki, Junya ^a   Kimura, Kazumi ^a   Shibazaki, Kensaku ^a   Sakamoto, Yuki ^a  

^a KAWASAKI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALBERTA; DIFFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84872971518     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.112.675470     Document Type: Article

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