Treatment for ischemic stroke: From thrombolysis to thrombectomy and remaining challenges

Stroke is a leading cause of death and long-term disabilities. Despite decades of extensive efforts in search of brain injury mechanisms and therapeutic interventions, pharmacological treatment is limited to the use of thrombolytic agent tissue plasminogen activator, which has limited therapeutic ti...

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Main Authors: Tiandong Leng, Zhi-Gang Xiong
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2019-01-01
Series:Brain Circulation
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Online Access:http://www.braincirculation.org/article.asp?issn=2394-8108;year=2019;volume=5;issue=1;spage=8;epage=11;aulast=Leng