Successful thrombolysis of stroke with intravenous alteplase in the third trimester of pregnancy

Journal of Neurology

Volumn 261, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 632-634

  Mantoan Ritter, Laura ^a,b   Schuler A ^b   Gangopadhyay, R ^b   Mordecai, L ^b   Arowele, O ^b   Losseff, N ^a,b   O'Brien, P ^b   Dewan, B ^b,c  

^a NATIONAL HOSPITAL FOR NEUROLOGY AND NEUROSURGERY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON HOSPITALS   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL FREE LONDON NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; CHOLESTEROL; CLOPIDOGREL; HEMOGLOBIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ADULT; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CEREBRAL ARTERY DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CESAREAN SECTION; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DRUG SUBSTITUTION; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSARTHRIA; DYSPHASIA; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMIANOPIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LETTER; MIGRAINE WITH AURA; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; NEUROIMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTERIOR INSULA; PREGNANCY DISORDER; PRIMIGRAVIDA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINUS RHYTHM; TEMPORAL LOBE; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; TRANSITIONAL BLINDNESS; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PROCEDURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADMINISTRATION, INTRAVENOUS; ADULT; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREGNANCY TRIMESTER, THIRD; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84896489798     PISSN: 03405354     EISSN: 14321459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00415-014-7286-y     Document Type: Letter

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