Safety and clinical outcome of thrombolysis in ischaemic stroke using a perfusion CT mismatch between 3 and 6 hours.

It may be possible to thrombolyse ischaemic stroke (IS) patients up to 6 h by using penumbral imaging. We investigated whether a perfusion CT (CTP) mismatch can help to select patients for thrombolysis up to 6 h.A cohort of 254 thrombolysed IS patients was studied. 174 (69%) were thrombolysed at 0-3...

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Main Authors: Laszlo K Sztriha, Dulka Manawadu, Jozef Jarosz, Jeff Keep, Lalit Kalra
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3189921?pdf=render