Full-Dose Thrombolysis for a Right Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke after an Acute Aortic Dissection

Intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV r-tpa) is the standard of care for patients suffering from neurological deficits due to an acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours in the absence of intracranial hemorrhage. We report a case of a patient with an acute right middle cerebral arte...

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Autores principales: Kazmi, Syed Omar, Achi, Oliver, Damani, Rahul
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137638/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30258267
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_78_18
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description Intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV r-tpa) is the standard of care for patients suffering from neurological deficits due to an acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours in the absence of intracranial hemorrhage. We report a case of a patient with an acute right middle cerebral artery stroke due to an acute aortic dissection (Stanford Type A) who was treated with full dose IV r-tpa resulting in a good outcome.
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spelling pubmed-61376382018-09-26 Full-Dose Thrombolysis for a Right Middle Cerebral Artery Stroke after an Acute Aortic Dissection Kazmi, Syed Omar Achi, Oliver Damani, Rahul Ann Indian Acad Neurol Case Report Intravenous recombinant tissue plasminogen activator (IV r-tpa) is the standard of care for patients suffering from neurological deficits due to an acute ischemic stroke within 4.5 hours in the absence of intracranial hemorrhage. We report a case of a patient with an acute right middle cerebral artery stroke due to an acute aortic dissection (Stanford Type A) who was treated with full dose IV r-tpa resulting in a good outcome. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2018 /pmc/articles/PMC6137638/ /pubmed/30258267 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aian.AIAN_78_18 Text en Copyright: © 2018 Annals of Indian Academy of Neurology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6137638/
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