Open AccessThe Importance of Size
Author(s) -
Christian Heiner Riedel,
Philip Zimmermann,
Ulf JensenKondering,
Robert Stingele,
Günther Deuschl,
Olav Jansen
Publication year - 2011
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.110.609693
Subject(s) - medicine , thrombolysis , thrombus , modified rankin scale , middle cerebral artery , stroke (engine) , cardiology , radiology , ischemic stroke , ischemia , mechanical engineering , myocardial infarction , engineering
We hypothesize that in acute middle cerebral artery stroke, thrombus lengths measured in thin-slice nonenhanced CT images define a limit beyond which systemic thrombolysis will fail to recanalize occluded arteries.
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