Site of Arterial Occlusion Identified by Transcranial Doppler Predicts the Response to Intravenous Thrombolysis for Stroke

Saqqur, Maher; Uchino, Ken; M. Demchuk, Andrew; A. Molina, Carlos; Garami, Zsolt; Calleja, S.; Akhtar, Naveed; O. Orouk, Finton; Salam, Abdul; Shuaib, Ashfaq; V. Alexandrov, Andrei; CLOTBUST Investigators, for

doi:10.1161/01.str.0000257304.21967.ba

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Site of Arterial Occlusion Identified by Transcranial Doppler Predicts the Response to Intravenous Thrombolysis for Stroke

Published in Stroke • Feb 9, 2007

Authors:

Maher Saqqur

Ken Uchino

Andrew M. Demchuk

Abstract

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE: The objective of this study was to examine clinical outcomes and recanalization rates in a multicenter cohort of stroke patients receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator by site of occlusion localized with bedside transcranial Doppler. Angiographic studies with intr...

Subject

Medicine

Thrombolysis

Middle cerebral artery

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