Extensive cerebral microbleeds predict parenchymal haemorrhage and poor outcome after intravenous thrombolysis

Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry

Volumn 86, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1267-1272

  Yan, Shenqiang ^a   Jin, Xinchun ^a   Zhang, Xuting ^a   Zhang, Sheng ^a   Liebeskind, David S ^b   Lou, Min ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; ALTEPLASE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN INFARCTION; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUSCEPTIBILITY WEIGHTED IMAGING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISEASE COURSE; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PROCEDURES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY; STROKE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; CEREBRAL INFARCTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STROKE; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947046847     PISSN: 00223050     EISSN: 1468330X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jnnp-2014-309857     Document Type: Article

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