Challenges of acute endovascular stroke trials

Stroke

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 3116-3122

  Goyal, Mayank ^a   Almekhlafi, Mohammed ^a,b   Menon, Bijoy ^a   Hill, Michael ^a   Fargen, Kyle ^c   Parsons, Mark ^d   Bang, Oh Young ^e   Siddiqui, Adnan ^f   Andersson, Tommy ^g,h   Mendes, Vitor ⁱ   Davalos, Antoni ^j   Turk, Aquilla ^k   Mocco, J ^l   Campbell, Bruce ^m   Nogueira, Raul ⁿ   Gupta, Rishi ^o   Murphy, Sean ^p   Jovin, Tudor ^q   Khatri, Pooja ^r   Miao, Zhongrong ^s   Demchuk, Andrew ^a   Broderick, Joseph P ^r   Saver, Jeffrey ^t   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b King Abdulaziz University   (Saudi Arabia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^e Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^f Department of Neurosurgery ^*  (United States)

^g KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^h KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

ⁱ GENEVA UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS   (Switzerland)

^j HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^k MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^l VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

ⁿ EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^o WellStar Health Systems   (United States)

^p MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^q UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^r UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^s Capital Pedagogical University   (China)

^t UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

stroke; therapeutic; thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR;

ABDOMINAL AORTA ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION CATHETER; BASILAR ARTERY; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BRAIN ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; COOPERATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; FUNDING; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; HUMAN; INTERNAL CAROTID ARTERY; LEADERSHIP; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MIDDLE CEREBRAL ARTERY; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANKIN SCALE; RECANALIZATION; REPERFUSION; TEAMWORK; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBECTOMY DEVICE; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); PROCEDURES; STROKE;

CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; ENDOVASCULAR PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MECHANICAL THROMBOLYSIS; STROKE;

EID: 84922480588     PISSN: 00392499     EISSN: 15244628     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/STROKEAHA.114.006288     Document Type: Article

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