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Delay in Seeking Treatment Is Still the Main Barrier in Receiving Acute Stroke Therapy

Author(s) -

Lung Chan

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.110.586925

Subject(s) - medicine , thrombolysis , stroke (engine) , acute stroke , tissue plasminogen activator , neurology , ischemic stroke , intensive care medicine , emergency medicine , myocardial infarction , ischemia , mechanical engineering , psychiatry , engineering

To the Editor:Although there have been major advances in stroke diagnosis, prevention, and treatment during the past decade, stroke is the still third most common cause of death in Taiwan.1 The intravenous tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) is currently the only approval medical therapy for acute ischemic stroke within a 3-hour window2,3 and …

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