Comparison of endovascular treatment versus conservative medical treatment in patients with acute basilar artery occlusion

Vascular and Endovascular Surgery

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 429-437

  Broussalis, E ^a   Hitzl, W ^a   McCoy, M ^a   Trinka, E ^a   Killer, M ^a  

^a PARACELSUS MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

Author keywords

BAO; basilar artery occlusion; endovascular treatment; stroke; thrombectomy

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; LOW MOLECULAR WEIGHT HEPARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BASILAR ARTERY OCCLUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPRESSIVE CRANIECTOMY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; ENDOVASCULAR MECHANICAL RECANALIZATION; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; RANKIN SCALE; RATING SCALE; STENT; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOLYSIS IN CEREBRAL INFARCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BAO; BASILAR ARTERY OCCLUSION; ENDOVASCULAR TREATMENT; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENTS; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGISTRIES; RISK FACTORS; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTEBROBASILAR INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84881362776     PISSN: 15385744     EISSN: 19389116     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1538574413488458     Document Type: Article

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