Association of anemia and hemoglobin decrease during acute stroke treatment with infarct growth and clinical outcome.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE:Anemia is associated with worse outcome in stroke, but the impact of anemia with intravenous thrombolysis or endovascular therapy has hardly been delineated. The aim of this study was to analyze the role of anemia on infarct evolution and outcome after acute stroke treatment....

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Main Authors: Sebastian Bellwald, Rupashani Balasubramaniam, Michael Nagler, Meret S Burri, Samuel D A Fischer, Arsany Hakim, Tomas Dobrocky, Yannan Yu, Fabien Scalzo, Mirjam R Heldner, Roland Wiest, Marie-Luise Mono, Hakan Sarikya, Marwan El-Koussy, Pasquale Mordasini, Urs Fischer, Gerhard Schroth, Jan Gralla, Heinrich P Mattle, Marcel Arnold, David Liebeskind, Simon Jung
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6157859?pdf=render