Background: Thrombolysis for acute ischemic stroke has remained controversial. The Canadian Alteplase for Stroke Effectiveness Study, a national prospective cohort study, was conducted to assess the ...

For patients suffering the most severe form of ischemic stroke, the journey to the right hospital can be a race against dying ...

In patients presenting at thrombectomy-capable stroke centers, the benefit associated with thrombolysis plus thrombectomy vs thrombectomy alone was time dependent and statistically significant only if ...

The strategy of administering intra-arterial (IA) thrombolysis immediately after thrombectomy in patients with acute ischemic stroke has come under renewed scrutiny after results from the TECNO trial ...

A new study published in the Journal of American Medical Association showed that shorter door-to-needle (DTN) and ...

That was the question up for debate during the WorldLink Forum at TCT 2023, with Rod Stables, MD (Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, England), arguing that primary PCI should remain the gold standard ...

The U.S. nationwide quality initiative Target: Stroke (TS) is associated with improvement in thrombolysis frequency, timeliness, and outcome, according to a study published online Feb. 7 in JAMA ...

Administered slowly, low-dose infusions of tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) are associated with low mortality and high treatment success rates in patients with obstructive prosthetic valve ...

Controversy exists over whether chronic antiplatelet therapy in patients with acute ischemic stroke is a contraindication to treatment with tissue plasminogen activator (tPA). Antiplatelets impair ...

The appropriate treatment for patients in whom reperfusion fails to occur after thrombolytic therapy for acute myocardial infarction remains unclear. There are few data comparing emergency ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . The LLM delivered 94.9% sensitivity and 99.1% specificity. The researchers noted the presence of false positives ...