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Does the sex of acute stroke patients influence the effectiveness of rt-PA?

BACKGROUND: Women have been reported to show more frequent recanalization and better recovery after intravenous (IV) recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (rt-PA) treatment for acute stroke compared with men. To investigate this we studied a series of stroke patients receiving IV rt-PA and underg...

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Autores principales: Al-hussain, Fawaz, Hussain, Muhammad S, Molina, Carlos, Uchino, Ken, Shuaib, Ashfaq, Demchuk, Andrew M, Alexandrov, Andrei V, Saqqur, Maher
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3994292/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24669960
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2377-14-60