IMS-III and synthesis expansion trials of endovascular therapy in acute ischemic stroke how can we improve?

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 3272-3274

  Nogueira, Raul G ^a   Gupta, Rishi ^a   Dávalos, Antoni ^b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Clinical trials; Stroke; Thrombectomy; Tissue type plasminogen activator

Indexed keywords

FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; NASARUPLASE BETA; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL OCCLUSION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL REVASCULARIZATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOVASCULAR THERAPY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; POSTERIOR CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; REPERFUSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

CLINICAL TRIALS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TISSUE-TYPE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS; PATIENT SELECTION; RESEARCH DESIGN; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84888301222     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002380     Document Type: Article

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