Timing of Recanalization After Tissue Plasminogen Activator Therapy Determined by Transcranial Doppler Correlates With Clinical Recovery From Ischemic Stroke
Author(s) -
Ioannis Christou,
Andrei V. Alexandrov,
W. Scott Burgin,
Anne W. Wojner,
Robert A. Felberg,
Marc Malkoff,
James C. Grotta
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
stroke
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.397
H-Index - 319
eISSN - 1524-4628
pISSN - 0039-2499
DOI - 10.1161/01.str.31.8.1812
Subject(s) - medicine , bolus (digestion) , transcranial doppler , tissue plasminogen activator , thrombolysis , stroke (engine) , ischemia , modified rankin scale , occlusion , anesthesia , t plasminogen activator , brain ischemia , cardiology , ischemic stroke , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering
The duration of cerebral blood flow impairment correlates with irreversibility of brain damage in animal models of cerebral ischemia. Our aim was to correlate clinical recovery from stroke with the timing of arterial recanalization after therapy with intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA).
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