Carotid stenting and intracranial thrombectomy for treatment of acute stroke due to tandem occlusions with aggressive antiplatelet therapy may be associated with a high incidence of intracranial hemorrhage

Journal of NeuroInterventional Surgery

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 170-175

  Heck, Donald V ^a   Brown, Morry D ^a  

^a FORSYTH MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL; HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; ANTITHROMBOCYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ARTERY STENT; CAROTID ARTERY STENTING; CATHETER SHEATH; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIFFUSION WEIGHTED IMAGING; EMBOLIC PROTECTION FILTER; GUIDING CATHETER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LOADING DRUG DOSE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MECHANICAL THROMBECTOMY; MORTALITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STENT THROMBOSIS; SYMPTOMATIC INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGE; THROMBECTOMY DEVICE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERY; DEVICES; FEMALE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY; STENT; STROKE; SURGERY; THROMBECTOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; CAROTID ARTERIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INTRACRANIAL HEMORRHAGES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STENTS; STROKE; THROMBECTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922634300     PISSN: 17598478     EISSN: 17598486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/neurintsurg-2014-011224     Document Type: Article

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