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Marilyn M Rymner1, Naveed Akhtar, Coleman Martin, Debbie Summers.
Abstract
Treatment of acute ischemic stroke is time dependent and technically challenging. Sixty-four percent of hospitals in the U.S. have never given intravenous (IV) tissue plasminogen activator (tPA) for stroke and 40% of the U.S. population lives in a county without a hospital that routinely treats eligible stroke victims with IV tPA. This, the second in a Missouri Medicine series on stroke, summarizes the available acute treatment options and the evolving role of neuro-imaging in directing therapeutic decisions.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID: 21207786 PMCID: PMC6188407
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Mo Med ISSN: 0026-6620