Many ischemic stroke patients do not get tPA, which can decrease their chances for recovery. Blacks, Hispanics, women and 'Stroke Belters' are less likely to get tPA. Patients treated in large ...

Many ischemic stroke patients do not get tPA, which can decrease their chances for recovery. Blacks, Hispanics, women and 'Stroke Belters' are less likely to get tPA. Patients treated in large ...

About 87 percent of all strokes are ischemic, meaning they’re caused by a blood clot in the brain. For more than 20 years, the standard of care has been a drug called TPA. But now, some doctors ...

During 2005, 150 stroke patients in the region who were apparently eligible for tPA arrived within 3.5 hours of symptom onset but were not treated, "possibly appropriately, we really don't know ...

Research presented today at the Society of NeuroInterventional Surgery's (SNIS) 22nd Annual Meeting included three studies ...

ECASS 3 was a randomized trial comparing tPA treatment with placebo in 821 stroke patients presenting three to 4.5 hours after symptom onset. After those patients with evidence of brain hemorrhage ...

tPA was introduced as a treatment for acute stroke in the 1990s. Doctors have debated its effectiveness and safety ever since, because it can increase the likelihood of deadly hemorrhage.

Tracy Madsen, M.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School in Providence, R.I., and colleagues reviewed the records of 563,087 patients ...

Stroke is the third leading cause of death in the U.S. claiming the lives of more than 140,000 Americans each year. But many lives could be spared if treatment was given sooner.

Even when its clot-dissolving powers are removed, the stroke drug tPA can still protect brain cells from the loss of oxygen and glucose induced by a stroke, researchers have discovered. The ...

Although tPA treatment for stroke is increasing over time, ... Women, men have different exclusion criteria for rtPA. Apr 6, 2015. Better patient outcome linked to get with the guidelines-stroke.

Even when its clot-dissolving powers are removed, the stroke drug tPA can still protect brain cells from the loss of oxygen and glucose induced by a stroke, researchers have discovered.