Length of occlusion predicts recanalization and outcome after intravenous thrombolysis in middle cerebral artery stroke

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2010-2017

  Rohan, Vladimir ^a   Baxa, Jan ^a   Tupy, Radek ^a   Cerna, Lenka ^a   Sevcik, Petr ^a   Friesl, Michal ^b   Polivka, Jiri ^a   Ferda, Jiri ^a  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

computed tomography; middle cerebral artery; outcome; stroke; thrombolytic therapy

Indexed keywords

ALTEPLASE; CHOLESTEROL; GLUCOSE; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE INHIBITOR; IOMEPROL;

ADULT; AGED; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CHOLESTEROL BLOOD LEVEL; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF LARGE VESSEL OCCLUSION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL PARAMETERS; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY OCCLUSION; NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH STROKE SCALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATHOGENESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STROKE PATIENT; TIME TO TREATMENT;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; OUTCOME; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL ANGIOGRAPHY; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; FOUR-DIMENSIONAL COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INFARCTION, MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84903779805     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.005731     Document Type: Article

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