Ultra-early intravenous stroke thrombolysis do all patients benefit similarly?

Stroke

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2913-2916

  Strbian, Daniel ^a   Ringleb, Peter ^b   Michel, Patrik ^c   Breuer, Lorenz ^d   Ollikainen, Jyrki ^e   Murao, Kei ^f   Seiffge, David J ^g   Jung, Simon ^h   Obach, Victor ⁱ   Weder, Bruno ^h,j   Eskandari, Ashraf ^c   Gensicke, Henrik ^g   Chamorro, Angel ⁱ   Mattle, Heinrich P ^h   Engelter, Stefan ^g   Leys, Didier ^f   Numminen, Heikki ^e   Köhrmann, Martin ^d   Hacke, Werner ^b   Tatlisumak, Turgut ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c LAUSANNE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^e TAMPERE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^f UNIV LILLE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

ⁱ INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIONS BIOMÈDIQUES AUGUST PI I SUNYER IDIBAPS   (Spain)

^j CANTONAL HOSPITAL ST GALLEN   (Switzerland)

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Author keywords

Emergencies; Ischemic stroke; Onset to needle time; Outcome; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANKIN SCALE; THERAPY DELAY; TIME TO TREATMENT;

EMERGENCIES; ISCHEMIC STROKE; ONSET TO NEEDLE TIME; OUTCOME; THROMBOLYSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84888342724     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.111.000819     Document Type: Article

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