Previous small studies of thrombolysis in acute stroke have reported that vessel recanalization needs to occur within 6 h of onset of stroke symptoms in order to produce functional improvement. To ...

Argatroban is a thrombin inhibitor that, in combination with recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rtPA), improves the speed and completeness of recanalization in animal stroke models. Sugg et al.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Among patients with acute ischemic stroke, thrombus location and thrombus permeability were among the predictors ...

Acute ischemic stroke patients may still benefit from endovascular therapy even when they have large lesions on diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI), according to a paper published ...

February 15, 2007 (San Francisco) — Results of a prospective single-cohort trial of a new generation of the Mechanical Embolus Removal in Cerebral Ischemia (MERCI) device (Concentric Medical Inc) for ...

Jihoon Kang; Nayoung Kim; Tae Hwan Park; Oh Young Bang; Ji Sung Lee; Juneyoung Lee; Moon-Ku Han; Seong-Ho Park; Philip B. Gorelick; Hee-Joon Bae Therefore, we aimed to determine whether early statin ...

Whether brain imaging can identify patients who are most likely to benefit from therapies for acute ischemic stroke and whether endovascular thrombectomy improves clinical outcomes in such patients ...

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