Safety of Intravenous Fibrinolysis in Imaging-Confirmed Single Penetrator Artery Infarcts
Author(s) -
Soo Joo Lee,
Jeffrey L. Saver,
David S. Liebeskind,
Latisha K. Ali,
Bruce Ovbiagele,
Doojin Kim,
Paul Vespa,
Michael T. Froehler,
Matthew Tenser,
Jignesh Gadhia,
Sidney Starkman
Publication year - 2010
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/strokeaha.110.586248
Subject(s) - medicine , ischemia , stroke (engine) , infarction , middle cerebral artery , internal carotid artery , fibrinolysis , thrombolysis , artery , radiology , cardiology , surgery , myocardial infarction , mechanical engineering , engineering
Hemorrhagic transformation (HT) after fibrinolytic therapy may be less common in patients with acute cerebral ischemia confined to single penetrator artery (SPA) territories than in patients with large artery ischemia. Previous investigations of HT diagnosed small vessel ischemia based on lacunar clinical syndromes, an approach known to yield misdiagnosis in one-third to one-half of cases.
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