Saturday, January 21, 2012

Dissection and i-v alteplase treatment

Quereshi et al.  Arch Neurol 2011; 68: 1536-42

Authors reviewed database finding about 1 % of 48,000 stroke patients had an underlying dissection. Alteplase was less effective in this stroke type in lowering disability, but the rates of hemorrhage were similar to other stroke types, and the lower outcome was not due to alteplase therapy.

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